Preserving capacity, General Tom Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff, Keys to Canadian SAR
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gies with other allied nations, as seen with Australia's Evolutionary Integrated ISR eXemplar Architecture (ELIIXAR). At CUE 18, based on the OSUS standard, the Canadian Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) and Full Motion Video (FMV), two fully integrated airborne surveillance systems that have typically been used to feed information into the Canadian 3-D Com- mon Operating System, surveyed a desig- nated area of the city to detect anomalies, such as unusual patterns of life, speeds and/ or directions of vehicles or drone activity. Next, the Canadian WISDOM system, an automated reasoning system initially built to tackle Maritime Domain awareness tasks, assimilated and analyzed any airborne- collected ground tracks as well as any ISS vest-generated tracks from the dismounted troops on the ground. Collected data was then processed through the Coalition Exploitation Envi- ronment (CE2), a shared processing plat- form in which American and Australian components would track objects, detect anomalies and enhance images, respec- tively. The Australian ELIIXAR suite of tools then took that information and pro- cessed it in a way in which a human analyst would analyse the data in real time and verify any pertinent information, before eventually passing the relevant informa- tion down to the soldier wearing the ISS vest in the field. The entire collaborative process takes minutes at most. Time is a precious com- modity in the urban field: the quicker the turnaround, the quicker the reaction of the feet on the ground. Chris Briggs, the U.K. national repre- sentative, highlighted that, for him and his team, one of the key takeaways from CUE 18 is that the experiment helped to evolve understanding of mapping out the capability of technologies with those of partners. The U.K. contingent was testing their own version of an integration architecture, Sensors for Asset Protection using Inte- grated Electronic Networked Technology (SAPIENT), a standard that defines the interfaces and messages between autono- mous sensors and a processor/controller. The technology enables a "plug and play" approach to the integration of sensors and, due to the architecture design, process- ing is performed at the "edge." This edge processing enables communications band- width to be saved since, instead of send- ing back raw data, the sensors send shorter messages describing the detection of tar- gets. The U.K. team developed software www.vanguardcanada.com OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 17 deFenCe innoVAtion Sin tÃtulo-2 1 16/02/2017 14:19:46