ISR analytics: Architectural and methodic concepts

Abstract

Prevention and management of damage scenarios require adequate situation awareness to make timely, coordinated, and proactive decisions possible. The stakeholders must be able to access and to comprehend relevant information quickly and with justifiable effort. The resulting challenges for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) lie not only in the new and further development of individual sensor and exploitation systems but also in interoperable system networking as well as in the realization of adequate strategies for the collection, processing, dissemination, and presentation of data and information products [1], [2], [3], [4]. In this publication, we present a high level architecture for ISR analytics that complies with these observations. It provides the functionality to customize the system precisely to specific scenarios of the ISR domain. We give a more detailed insight into concepts and approaches that are essential for specific architecture components.