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The motivation behind our discussion and analysis focused on understanding the realities of current political, strategic, operational and tactical environments. Current operations involve an increasingly rapid tempo, involving short decision cycles and high stress. There is an increased link between the units in which political considerations affect strategy, operations and tactics on a short term basis. While there are fewer tactical units, these units have increased fire power. Hence the activities of an individual tactical unit can have a greater impact at tactical, strategic and political arenas (in a negative and positive way). This is made possible due to increased communications capacity (both bandwidth and connectivity). Thus, network centricity is a double-edged sword., See also ADM002067. Pub. in Workshop of the RTO Panel on Information Systems Technology (IST), RTO-MP-IST-063, pBR-3-1-BR-3-6, 2006. Pres. at the Workshop of the RTO Panel on Information Systems Technology (IST) held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 17-20 Oct 2006. Document includes Briefing Charts (15 slides, Reliability and Uncertainty in Situational Awareness). The original document contains color images.

In recent years research in Data Fusion and Visualization science has focused on understanding physical environments and data types. Advanced visualization techniques including VR and other related technologies have succeeded in providing meaningful outputs. However many abstract concepts are beyond traditional modes of display and hence require new paradigms in visualization. Our objective is to present an organized, provocative introductory presentation regarding the definitions and ontological structure of such non-physical concepts as well as possible means for visualizing/ communicating their states as a framework to encourage lively discussions among military staff and research scientists on approaches for both computing the estimated value of and for efficiently communicating/visualizing the results of fusion-based estimates of these conceptual states. Through such discussion, it is hoped that a NATO consensus can be established on the issues surrounding this important topic, and also that agreement can be established on additional research needed to both better understand this topical area and to develop effective visualization/communication methods., See also ADM001665. Published in RTO-MP-105. Presented at RTO 1ST Workshop on Massive Military Data Fusion and Visualization: Users Talk with Developers, held in Halden, Norway on 10-13 Sep 2002. The original document contains color images.

The purpose of this paper is to explore non-traditional visualization techniques to assess threat and other variables in command center settings. Not all entities that a commander interacts in real life can be converted to visual medium, which is but just one of the five senses that we have. As an example, sense of threat during a critical situation during a mission cannot be easily communicated with color. Many special skills such as a surgeon using a sharp scalpel or a Pilot negotiating a sharp curve cannot be easily represented in videos or even real time Virtual Environments. We call such systems non-physical visualization. While elsewhere in this conference we speak about Ontological representation of such events, here some techniques currently underdevelopment to visualize such parameters are presented including tactile and haptic rendering techniques., See also ADM001665. Published in RTO-MP-105. Presented at RTO 1ST Workshop on Massive Military Data Fusion and Visualization: Users Talk with Developers, held in Halden, Norway on 10-13 Sep 2002. The original document contains color images.