Twitter web-service for soft agent reporting in persistent surveillance systems

Haroun Rababaah; Amir Shirkhodaie

doi:10.1117/12.850448

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28 April 2010 Twitter web-service for soft agent reporting in persistent surveillance systems

Haroun Rababaah, Amir Shirkhodaie

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Proceedings Volume 7709, Cyber Security, Situation Management, and Impact Assessment II; and Visual Analytics for Homeland Defense and Security II; 77090L (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.850448
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Persistent surveillance is an intricate process requiring monitoring, gathering, processing, tracking, and characterization of many spatiotemporal events occurring concurrently. Data associated with events can be readily attained by networking of hard (physical) sensors. Sensors may have homogeneous or heterogeneous (hybrid) sensing modalities with different communication bandwidth requirements. Complimentary to hard sensors are human observers or "soft sensors" that can report occurrences of evolving events via different communication devices (e.g., texting, cell phones, emails, instant messaging, etc.) to the command control center. However, networking of human observers in ad-hoc way is rather a difficult task. In this paper, we present a Twitter web-service for soft agent reporting in persistent surveillance systems (called Web-STARS). The objective of this web-service is to aggregate multi-source human observations in hybrid sensor networks rapidly. With availability of Twitter social network, such a human networking concept can not only be realized for large scale persistent surveillance systems (PSS), but also, it can be employed with proper interfaces to expedite rapid events reporting by human observers. The proposed technique is particularly suitable for large-scale persistent surveillance systems with distributed soft and hard sensor networks. The efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed technique is measured experimentally by conducting several simulated persistent surveillance scenarios. It is demonstrated that by fusion of information from hard and soft agents improves understanding of common operating picture and enhances situational awareness.

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Haroun Rababaah and Amir Shirkhodaie "Twitter web-service for soft agent reporting in persistent surveillance systems", Proc. SPIE 7709, Cyber Security, Situation Management, and Impact Assessment II; and Visual Analytics for Homeland Defense and Security II, 77090L (28 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.850448

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