Sensor Alert Service SAS – An open interface for a web service for publishing
Integrate the collection and exploitation management of airborne, commercial, and advanced geospatial intelligence and satellite data. Accelerate the standardization of
sensor data, metadata, compression formats and file identifiers. [Excerpt from NSG Statement of Strategic Intent]
It has long been recognized that the current state of sensor networks are developed around different communities of sensor types and user types, with each community
typically relying on its own stovepipe system for discovery, accessing observations, receiving alerts, and tasking sensor systems and models. Even within fairly coherent
communities, each type of sensor tends to be accompanied by its on metadata semantics, its own data formats, and its own software.
Within such stovepipe systems, the ability to discover and utilize a new sensor asset is typically hindered by incompatible encodings and services. Additionally, readily
available information regarding the sensor system, the observation encodings, processing, and supporting services is typically lacking, scattered, or incomplete. Within these
systems, adding support for a new sensor asset to an existing decision support tool or processing operation takes at best several days, and at worst many months or years,
accompanied by high expense.