Battlespace visualization: a grand challenge

Over the last several years, the size and significance of problems to which visualization has been applied has increased significantly. A few problems can be thought of as Grand Challenge domains; problems of such consequence, size and complexity that their solution represents a significant validation of our technology’s value. Battlespace Visualization, BV, ingests complex, real-time, multi-source, multi-type data; must create tailorable, multipurpose presentations; and, must present a robust, intuitive, easily learned, interactive interface to life-and-death decision makers. It represents a union of technical challenges that, regardless of problem domain, makes BV a Visualization Grand Challenge. Battlespace Visualization represents a challenge of many different dimensions: