TotalSense: Situation Awareness Framework
A comprehensive framework that combines functionalities with methodological blueprints to support situation management operations and specifically identification of situations of interest in critical applications recuring continuous monitoring and/or surveillance. It offers a systematic approach for consuming and interpreting sensor data, including Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), to deliver timely, consistent information on identified potential threats (incidents), along with associated impact evaluations. The framework integrates the following core components to enable the efficient ingestion, tracking, and monitoring of sensor observations: (i) OSINT Component, (ii) Multimodal Data Fusion Component, (iii) Risk Assessment Component. These technologies process data from the available systems that detect environmental changes and auxiliary data services that provide contextual insights and provide innovation traits by integrating OSINT capabilities that gather publicly available information to enhance situational awareness and procedures to formulate and apply impact assessment of events enabling the evaluation of potential threats and the categorisation of threats to support informed, operational decision-making.
Keywords
- Operational Decision Support
- OSINT
- Impact Assessment Framework
- Multisource Data Fusion