Information Fusion and Extraction Priorities for Australia's Information Capability
Abstract
The Commonwealth of Australia's strategic policy on defense recognizes the need for Australia to further develop and enhance its information capability. While this is mainly a reflection of the uptake of information technology by the military (the Revolution in Military Affairs), in more recent times it also has been in response to the global threats of terrorism and the utilization of weapons of mass destruction or long-range ballistic missiles by rogue states. The areas that have been identified as being of primary importance for fostering Australia's emerging information capability are intelligence and surveillance capabilities, communications, information warfare, command and headquarters systems, and logistics and business applications. To meet the challenges that the development and enhancement of this information capability raise, advanced information processing techniques for fusing and extracting data or information are required. In this paper, a holistic model for integrating the relevant technologies of data fusion and data mining is proposed and several of the current information fusion and extraction initiatives at Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation supporting intelligence, surveillance, and command and control are outlined. The paper covers the following topics: the integration of data fusion and data mining; the JDL data fusion model; target behavior extraction for wide area surveillance in Australia; intelligence processing and analysis; COTS products for data fusion and data mining, including the Autonomy, SaffronNet, Starlight, Fact Extractor System, and Data Mining and Visualisation Toolkit computer programs and software tools; information fusion for command and control; interpretations of the deconstructed JDL data model; and FOCAL research and the challenges of information fusion. Twenty-one briefing charts summarize the presentation. (14 figures, 38 refs.)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA428625
Entities
People
- Dale Lambert
- John Percival
- Martin Oxenham
- Richard Price
Organizations
- Defence Science and Technology Group