An architectural framework for ISR analytics

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) provides an important basis for well-informed decisions in military and security-related domains. Due to the diversity of contributing partners and ISR assets as well as the amount of acquired information, a structured approach to managing and making best use of acquired information is required. Tackling these issues, a conceptual architecture for consistently integrating, presenting, and analyzing ISR products from heterogeneous sources is proposed. This architecture is based on a requirements analysis, the examination of standards and architectural frameworks especially from NATO, as well as the state of the art in the same and conceptually related domains. Following a modular and layer-based approach, the architecture is developed step-by-step, with this publication focusing on the aspects of interoperable source integration and management of the quality of information.