Distributed Maritime Situation Picture Production and Data Fusion
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By automating and supporting the picture production process and improving the quality of situation pictures, data fusion has become an important aid in military surveillance. Recognised Maritime Picture (RMP) production is inherently a distributed process, and effective information exchange protocols are a supplementary aid to data fusion. This paper focuses on situation pictures supporting maritime operations. The purpose of RMPs is described and the maritime environment is characterised. Next the desired properties of a system for distributed RMP production, its architecture and how it could evolve, leveraging the rapid development in infrastructure technology, are discussed. Further, we discuss some requirements the construction of a RMP production system, supporting a hierarchical and geographically dispersed organisation, impose on data fusion.
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