A system for testing distributed information fusion applications for maritime surveillance
Hans Wehn, Jens Happe, Adel Guitouni, Pierre Valin, Éloi Bossé · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2008
A PRECARN partnership project, called CanCoastWatch (CCW), is bringing together a team of researchers from industry, government, and academia for creating an advanced simulation test bed for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of Network Enabled Operations in a Coastal Wide Area Surveillance situation. The test bed allows experimenting with higher-level distributed information fusion, dynamic resource management and configuration management given multiple constraints on the resources and their communications networks. The test bed provides general services that are useful for testing many fusion applications. This includes a multi-layer plug-and-play architecture, and a general multi-agent framework based on John Boyd's OODA loop.