Software architecture of an ISR asset planning application

The paper at hand presents an approach for an optimal planning of ISR asset deployment in order to satisfy the information needs of a commander. Based on the processes of information requirements management (IRM) and collection management (CM), a two-step approach has been developed. In the first step, the operator assigns interactively to each target on which reconnaissance or surveillance has to be performed a set of suitable assets. The operator may assign the suitable assets to a target either diretly, based on his experience and knowledge, or supported by an asset selection assistant component of the application. In the second step an automatic asset assignment and execution order is computed. The SWArchitecture of the application is a layered architecture; each layer captures and groups application specific aspects.