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8.5.7 “See and Talk” collaboration with common geographic view
For decision making in a collaborative environment, communications mechanisms and services are needed. As demonstrated in OWS-3, a video feed from a UAV over a fire
location is broadcast to several locations. The several locations are connected so that they can see the same video, with the ability for each location to highlight a location on
the video for the other locations to see. While sharing and co-interacting this common picture the locations are able to talk and chat. The result being artifacts to be saved and
made part of the decision object. This coordination can be achieved with OWS Context, KML, LoF, and other mechanisms. This would require that OWS Context be extended to
support imagery, video, audio, digital data, map represented data – for multi-int fusion.
8.5.8 Coordination through social networks
To be effective decision fusion must go beyond a strictly geospatial context. This broadening must bring other data types as well as interaction with broader standards
communities. Social networks to collaborate, develop common understanding and make decisions should become part of our understanding of decision fusion. Social networks
can be used by the analyst to add structure to unstructured information. Use of technologies like wikis and blogs that are spatially enabled and support the decision
object approaches defined above, would provide a basis for collaborative decision making.
8.5.9 Conduct a Decision Fusion initiative: Decision Fusion Pilot
Conduct an initiative involving several Operational Nodes that perform decision fusion. To maximize the variability in the initiative, involve Nodes from different management
federations, different domain responsibilities, different architectures and different countries – but using common interface standards. Such diversity will aid in developing
international standards that support interoperability across multiple functional domains. For example in the civilian domain, interoperability testing based on open standards for
an event that involves MASAS and IPAWS would meet this recommendation See Section 8.2.
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9 ObjectFeature Fusion
9.1 Introduction
