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A variety of diff erent platforms are of course needed in order to build proper infrastructure to permit data gathering and
further level of analysis and post processing capabilities.
The seamless integration of space applications within wider systems featuring terrestrial sensors (be they land, sea or airbased)
will allow to furthermore develop a full spectrum of added value services in terms of all around the globe near realtime
data delivery and data continuity. The combination of diff erent data gathering assets and advanced techniques for data
exploitation and exchange together with international cooperation between stakeholders (civil and military) present an
enormous potential to improve missions’ effi ciency.
Novel decision support systems (including fusion algorithms and intuitive human-machine interfaces) that help analysts
achieve situation awareness fi nd unsuspected connections and get early warning of risks need to be developed and tested.
Such systems will lead to faster and better decisions in all of the four application areas (security of citizens, border security,
security of infrastructure, crisis management).
Data and information fusion methods and techniques for integrating information from a wide variety of heterogeneous data
sources need to be further developed, including interoperable communications, direct handling of legal and integrity aspects.
Data integration and semantic interoperability, information fusion and data mining algorithms that increase the security of the
society need still being designed to actively protect the integrity of the citizen.
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