Data Fusion - Case Study 2
Data Fusion - integrating complex data from multiple sources
CASE STUDY 2 – Data Integration
A Distributed Crisis Management and Tracking System
This system integrates geospatial and weather information with crisis event tracking and logistical information in a distributed, online whiteboard environment. It checks planned or actual actions against an expert knowledge base to ensure compliance with mandatory rules and good practice. The users can:
- Display, browse & amplify data
- Generate briefing documents
- Review mission requirements
- Review, analyze and simulate a plan
- Teleconference with other planners
Scalability - In a non-crisis mode the system typically has hundreds of users and during a crisis mode it may have thousands of users.
Flexibility - The system providers need to add new features, analysis functions and remote servers seamlessly into the deployed application.
Survivability – Failure of one location must not affect any of the other Defense organizations working on the crisis. Objectivity/DB is fully distributed with a Single Logical View, so it was easy to meet this user requirement.
Reliability - The system has to be up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Objectivity/Fault Tolerant Option and Data Replication Option were key discriminators.