Hard sensor fusion for COIN inspired situation awareness

Counter Insurgency operations require the ability to develop accurate representations of the physical environment and the human landscape in various conditions (e.g., urban and non-urban, day and night, and various weather conditions). We are developing innovative sensor suites and processing techniques suitable for such domains as part of a larger effort to support human-centric hard/soft data fusion. In this paper, we present a sensor suite, an information processing architecture, examples of the resulting fused information, and future experimental designs. These combined resources present opportunities for creating rich 3-D characterizations of the environment and can support novel hybrid human/computer methods for target characterization, identification, and tracking.