Proceedings Article | 24 May 2012
KEYWORDS: Sensors, Intelligent sensors, Intelligence systems, Standards development, Sensor networks, Environmental sensing, Defense and security, On-screen displays, Magnetic sensors, Electro optical sensors
The War fighter lacks a unified Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) environment to conduct mission
planning, command and control (C2), tasking, collection, exploitation, processing, and data discovery of disparate sensor
data across the ISR Enterprise. Legacy sensors and applications are not standardized or integrated for assured, universal
access. Existing tasking and collection capabilities are not unified across the enterprise, inhibiting robust C2 of ISR
including near-real time, cross-cueing operations. To address these critical needs, the National Measurement and
Signature Intelligence (MASINT) Office (NMO), and partnering Combatant Commands and Intelligence Agencies are
developing SensorWeb, an architecture that harmonizes heterogeneous sensor data to a common standard for users to
discover, access, observe, subscribe to and task sensors. The SensorWeb initiative long term goal is to establish an open
commercial standards-based, service-oriented framework to facilitate plug and play sensors. The current development
effort will produce non-proprietary deliverables, intended as a Government off the Shelf (GOTS) solution to address the
U.S. and Coalition nations' inability to quickly and reliably detect, identify, map, track, and fully understand security
threats and operational activities.
