Traditionally, intelligence gathering has involved three areas of technology: sensor and signal processing, database technology and evaluation technology. The current pace of globalisation, the rapid penetration of Internet usage and continuing advances in sensor sophistication mean that vast amounts of information are being gathered, as never before. Traditional intelligence processing methods are feeling the strain.
At last year's NATO workshop "Massive Military Data Fusion" held in Norway 2002, it was agreed that there is an increasing need for visualization of data. This need has increased because the military now receives more data coming from more sensors and more sources. In the intelligence context, the fusion of information is a multi-layered process. First, raw data are collected and filtered and brought to archives. The analysis of ...
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