Military Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
(ISR) is steadily heading in the direction of unmanned operation. For ISR large areas of (often ragged) terrain must
be constantly and systematically monitored. With increasing
availability of smart sensors and devices it is only natural that
computer systems become more involved in ISR. Very often
human operators in such systems handle raw data incoming
from surveillance cameras, reconnaissance drones, motion
detectors, etc., and perform situation evaluation themselves.
In state of the art systems with higher levels of computer
system integration, raw data is processed by the autonomous
system and human operators handle the provided situation
assessments, which adds agility and greater area coverage.
Furthermore, modern ISR systems are increasingly being
assembled from standalone systems, so the resulting ISR
systems are Systems of Systems (SoS). Situation evaluation in
such systems is performed on-site by every sub-system, rather
than in the information hub and system-to-system interaction
greatly exceeds machine-to-human interaction.