Issues and challenges of information fusion in contested environments: panel results
Erik Blasch, Ivan Kadar, Chee Chong, Eric K. Jones, Jorge E. Tierno, Laurie H. Fenstermacher, John D. Gorman, Georgiy Levchuk · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2015
With the plethora of information, there are many aspects to contested environments such as the protection of information, network privacy, and restricted observational and entry access. In this paper, we review and contrast the perspectives of challenges and opportunities for future developments in contested environments. The ability to operate in a contested environment would aid societal operations for highly congested areas with limited bandwidth such as transportation, the lack of communication and observations after a natural disaster, or planning for situations in which freedom of movement is restricted. Different perspectives were presented, but common themes included (1) Domain: targets and sensors, (2) network: communications, control, and social networks, and (3) user: human interaction and analytics. The paper serves as a summary and organization of the panel discussion as towards future concerns for research needs in contested environments.