09. ONTOLOGY-BASED METHODS AND SYSTEMS SUPPORTING SITUATION AWARENESS IN HYBRID CONFLICTS UTILISING ONTOLOGY REASONING MECHANISMS AND GIS-BASED DISTRIBUTED SERVICES
This work is aimed at explaining requirements and design assumptions for military tools used for mission support especially in hybrid conflicts. Utilisation of communication and mobile technologies provides for military platforms which are able to host and support complex software in the domain of data acquisition and distribution as well as decision support. Presented in the paper tools deliver mechanisms supporting Network Enabled Capability characteristics to individual soldier and commander creating network of battlespace entities capable of data acquisition, object identification (reconnaissance) as well as reasoning about current environment state, mission and possible courses of action (CoA). Designed layered architecture based on mobile and SOA technologies is a proof-of-concept demonstrator utilised in several projects as a integration platform but most of all as a decision support tool assisting military during live exercises. mCOP and tCOP systems have been designed and prepared to be powered from external data sources such as heterogeneous C4I systems and other military-government data sources, using NATO and open standards (JC3IEDM, NFFI, TSO). Experiences and gathered data demonstrate novel approach which deliver advanced algorithms for evaluation of soldier's environment to support his understanding and awareness of combat situation. Such features are crucial for rapid situation development and engagements therefore handheld tools which can efficiently and reliably render tactical and operational pictures are very useful and required. New types of conflicts introduce threats, which require not only operational forces involvement but also territorial defence and population. Therefore, there is a need for ICT tools which will enable wide spread secure communication between forces and possibly civilians, automate reporting hostile data, and scenario description. All these requirements have been implemented in mCOP mobile toolkit supported by central server facilities and C2 portal – tCOP . Demonstrated results will present novel approach to mobile device utilization during combat missions for automatic data acquisition and rendering. Such solutions in the future could supplement weapon systems in order to increase efficiency of tactical and topographical orientation within the combat environment. The paper will evaluate characteristics of mobile application, which are able to support combat operations performed by operational forces and territorial defence. Discussed ideas will also contain discussion on how to construct specialised, possibly classified software deployed on commercially available hardware platforms and what advantages such approach can deliver to support operations in hybrid conflicts.
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- AuthorMariusz Chmielewski
- AffiliationMilitary University of Technology Warsaw
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