Title
Improving maritime situational awareness by fusing sensor information and intelligence
Author
van den Broek, A.C.
Neef, R.M.
Hanckmann, P.
van Gosliga, S.P.
van Halsema, D.
Publication year
2011
Abstract
In present-day military security operations threats are more difficult to reveal than in conventional warfare theatres, since they take place during the course of normal life. These maritime missions often take place in littoral environments, where acts of piracy, drug trafficking and other threatening events become obscured in the crowd of everyday fisheries, cargo traders, ferries and pleasure cruises, hindering situation awareness. We aim to improve situation awareness and threat detection capabilities in maritime scenarios by combining sensor-based information with context information and intelligence from various sources. The fusion and analysis in order to reveal suspect from normal behavior is based on domain ontologies. A test bed allows the study of various exploitation and assessments techniques applied to these domain ontologies. Using an appropriate scenario we have simulated suspect and normal behaviour to test the applicability of the various techniques. © 2011 IEEE.
Subject
Intelligence
Sensors
Context information
Domain ontologies
Drug trafficking
Intelligence
Littoral environment
Maritime Environment
Security
Normal behavior
Situational awareness
Threat assessment
Threat detection
Crime
Decision support systems
Equipment testing
Information fusion
Physics & Electronics
DSS - Distributed Sensor Systems
TS - Technical Sciences
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TNO identifier
435977
Source
14th International Conference on Information Fusion, Fusion 2011, 5 - 8 July 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, 1293-1300
Document type
conference paper