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Back Human Terrain Analysis Collection System

Fiscal Year 2010
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Information Sciences
Investigator(s) Longley, Carrick T.
Sponsor Space & Naval Warfare Systems Center-Pacific (Navy)
Summary The objective of this thesis is to develop a software application for an iPhone/iPod touch by integrating commercially available software and hardware technologies to enhance the collection of information that can be used to accurately represent the human terrain - the social, ethnographic, cultural, economic, and political elements of the people among whom a force is operating - in a geographic area. Utilizing location-aware mobile devices with the power of social networking, this thesis focuses on the aggregation of geo-referenced data to build a more robust common operational picture and map the human terrain. Furthermore, the data obtained from the HTACS devices can be used to generate customized reports based on quantifiable, field collected attributes. In conjunction with researchers in the CORE Lab, the HTACS system looks to provide the front-end collection capability for links and social network analysis. Commercial off the shelf (COTS) and government off the shelf (GOTS) technologies and software solutions will also be researched to ensure a more robust, well-rounded technical solution is developed. This thesis aims to provide a technical solution to one of the problems faced by military.
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