Potential of Using Mobile Phone Data to Assist in Mission Analysis and Area of Operations Planning

Abstract

The way a unit defines an area of operation (AO) can restrict or facilitate a unit's ability to influence the population; however, units may not have access to accurate census data. An AO developed through a cursory mission analysis could misrepresent current tribal boundaries, population densities, district boundaries, and residential areas. Recent research has demonstrated that given anonymized call data records of mobile subscribers, units may be able to circumvent the need for an accurate census to feed into the mission analysis in determining an optimal AO. Furthermore, mobile data also provides the added benefit of allowing us to assess changing population patterns over time.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA621131

Entities

People

  • Andrew C. Lee

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Big Data
  • Boundaries
  • Cellular Networks
  • Command And Control
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Demography
  • Mobile Communications
  • Mobile Phones
  • Motivation
  • Network Science
  • Operations Research
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • Urban Areas

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  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design