|
The i-C3S is an open software component based system that may utilize information from various existing or integrated sensor or co-operative systems. The system is able to operate in a centralized, distributed or mesh type environment depending on the operational requirements. The i-C3S implements a network centric system approach where the C3 network is the system. Operations may more or less be conducted regardless of time and location.
The primary objective of the system is to provide military or security personnel with an accurate and reliable situation picture of the situation at hand. The situation picture consists of information that has been received and processed by various systems that are part of the C3 network. The situation picture may consist of maritime, air and/or land based components and targets, whatever is required to compile the wide area situation picture.
System objectives:
- Collect and process information
- Provide the processed information as an easily comprehensible situation picture to the users of the system
- Distribute information in at timely and secure fashion
- Adapt for the C3 network environment
- Provide for recording, analysis and statistics of events within the C3 system
The operational objective is achieved by presenting the information in an easily comprehensible fashion. The users of the system may concentrate on the decision making and commanding and securing the environment at hand.
The system typically consists of a sensor system or systems and their corresponding communication and processing systems. System components are being connected to a TCP/IP based C3 network. Sensor, communication and processing systems may be redundant. The use of COTS components such as PC type computers for processing and display of the situation picture enables low deployment and maintenance costs while allowing the customer to take advantage of the rapid advances in display and processing technology. The system software is platform independent and may be run using either Windows or Unix, thus ensuring maximum lifetime.
Data exchange between system components has been optimized to use as little bandwidth as necessary. Information to and from a radar site may utilize as little as 64kbit/s. Communication between system components may be secured using built-in application level encryption. Information may be shared between virtually all system components thanks to a distributed and peer-to-peer communication system. Data content can be transmitted through different physical and logical equipment without need for application redesign.
Track Fusion Management and Correlation may be distributed across different autonomous track management systems within the C3 network to meet operational requirements or to reduce network traffic. Communication between system components may be secured using built-in application level encryption. Information may be shared between virtually all system components thanks to a distributed and peer-to-peer communication system. Different data content may be transmitted through different physical and logical equipment without need for application redesign. Sensors and display clients may leave and join the C3 system in an ad-hoc fashion.
The operator workstation acts as the primary user interface for the networked application services within the C3 system. It provides the authenticated personnel with the functionality that they are entitled to according to their access rights. A brief listing of key functionalities: 
- Electronic chart information of the area with customizable overlays.
- Sensor fused tracks and other processed real-time information
- Integrated sensor control and monitoring
- Access to logged data and analyzing functionality
- Built-in combat message communication
- Built-in capability for logging of real-time data and replay of stored data
- Optional support for built-in analysis tools for various purposes
The C3 display application is based on the JMAP Real-Time GIS developed by Navielektro. The system is software component based and is entirely system independent. The application is organized into data sources, chart layers and modules:
- A track source implements an adaptor to either sensor data originating directly from a sensor or from a sensor processing server such as NETFMS.
- A chart layer implements a geographic view of information such as: track data, radar image data, chart or map data, and user objects. Charts may consist of any S/57, VPF, aerial or land based charts.
- A module implements specific behavior for e.g. Controlling a sensor connected to the C3 system. Thanks to the component-based approach JMAP C3 is not just another display application. It might be the only presentation system that your organization will ever need, as the definition of growth and change was built-in to the system from the beginning.
The system may be integrated to virtually any kind of sensors and systems such as scanning rotating radars, FM-CW ground surveillance radars, direction finding systems, under water surveillance systems, maritime AIS, ASTERIX, XML, NMEA, Fleet Management or other similar systems. The system is capable of presenting RMP (Recognized Maritime Picture), ASP (Air Situation Picture) as well as WASP (Wide Area Situation Picture) and COP (Common Operational Picture). The track fusion system is capable of sensor fusion and sensor management-message based air situation picture and a range of military data links.
i-C3S deliveries are modular in nature. As such, the customer can choose between a number of additional modules to fulfill their needs. Some of the modules available include:
|
