Shared Situational Awareness Environment for Tactical Level Humanitarian Emergency Operations

Abstract

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is exploring key factors that affect how teams, particularly distributed teams, develop shared situational awareness (SSA) in a Complex Humanitarian Emergency (CHE) environment. This research develops the foundation for deploying the following: Network-Centric Human-Agents in CHE habitats, an integrated environment of mobile operators, deployable wireless networks, sensors, collaborative tools, and multiagent systems. We experimentally explored how to integrate a deployable wireless network with peer-to-peer (P2P) collaborative tools and situational awareness agents. This was done to establish shared awareness of the events that were taking place during the CHE operation. The major findings include the following: a better understanding of the critical role of peer-to-peer communication, network performance monitoring, and innovative agent-based architecture for maintaining seamless access to the remote data bases and expert sources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA467097

Entities

People

  • Hezekiah Barge
  • Mark S. Davis

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Emergencies
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • International Organizations
  • Mobile Phones
  • Operating Systems
  • Position (Location)
  • Situational Awareness
  • Text Messaging
  • Web Browsers
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.