RECONSURVE: JC3IEDM and EDXL based Emergency Management Service Oriented Architecture for Maritime Surveillance

Effective response to emergencies and crises depends on timely available, reliable and intelligible information. To achieve this, many different services from heterogeneous information sources, systems and organizations have to co-operate. Especially, the coordination of government/civil agencies and military organizations are required to handle crises situations. Hence, the interoperability of Command and Control (C2) systems of the military organizations and Emergency Management (EM) systems of the government/civil agencies is crucial. In this context, the interoperability means the ability of systems, units or organizations to provide the services to, and accept services from other systems, units or organizations and to use the services so exchanged to enable them to operate effectively together. The major bottleneck in this interoperability is the difference of the information models (and/or standards) that these two types of systems use. Currently, Joint Consultation, Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model (JC3IEDM) of Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP) is the most widely used data standard in military C2 systems, whereas it is OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) in the governmental/civil organizations. In this paper, we propose an EDXL and JC3IEDM based Emergency Management Service Oriented Architecture to cope especially with the maritime crisis situations cooperatively by the military organizations and government agencies. The work is realized in the scope of RECONSURVE (Reconfigurable Surveillance System with Communicating Smart Sensors) project supported by ITEA2 at the international level and by TUBITAK at