Publications

Information superiority is one of the primary enablers for military dominance; the exploitation of all relevant information from multiple sources is a key factor for NATO’s information superiority. Visualization and visual analytics research are essential to address the needs of the 2015 NATO targets of emphasis in Information Analysis (IA) and Decision Support (DS): IA&DS-1 on Decision Support and IA&DS-2 on Big Data and Long Data Processing and Analysis. Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. The Group investigated, researched and fostered collaborations in knowledge extraction and data analysis for timely situation awareness to support effective decision making. The IST-141 group researched, developed and applied exploratory visual analytics techniques: 1) To exploit and make sense of large and complex data sets, i.e., Big Data; 2) To help make tacit knowledge explicit;3) To provide acute situation awareness, and 4) To support informed decision making across a wide range of defence and security application domains including cyber, maritime, genomics and social media domains, as well as post analysis and in situ visualization for simulation data.