The Interactive Data Wall

Abstract

The increasingly complex battlefield environment drives the requirement for the presentation and interactive control of the endless stream of information arriving from a diverse collection of sensors deployed on a variety of platforms. At best, the situational awareness picture is fragmented without the benefit of data fusion and correlation to present a true picture of the battlespace from all information sources. Collaboration and interaction is also needed for operators within a control center and among remote geographic locations. The need to display and manipulate real-time multimedia data in a battlefield operations control center is critical to the Joint Commander directing air, land, naval and space assets. The Interactive DataWall being developed by the Advanced Displays and Intelligent Interfaces (ADII) technology team of the Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/IF) in Rome, New York is a strong contender for solving the information management problems facing the 21st century military commander. It provides an ultra high-resolution large screen display with wireless interaction. Commercial off-the-shelf technology has been combined with specialized hardware and software developed in-house to provide a unique capability for multimedia data display and control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA461019

Entities

People

  • Jason Moore
  • Mark Brykowytch
  • Peter A. Jedrysik
  • Richard Sweed

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Cameras
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • Display Systems
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Graphics
  • High Resolution
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Lasers
  • Liquid Crystal Displays
  • Operating Systems

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.

Technology Areas

  • Space