Situation Maps
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories - Shuttle Launch Control Center
Federation of American Scientists
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Sensor Arrays
Do you have any information on networked sensor arrays? These are small devices that may be scattered from an aircraft over a target landscape. Once on the ground, the sensors self-organize and set up a communications network among themselves. When completed, they can pass information such as vehicle movements back to a command center. Each unit is self-contained and expendable, but the net in its entirety is robust. Although developed for military intelligence, such networks could find applications in hazardous and remote area reconnaissance.
UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE DETECTION USING IMAGING GIANT MAGNETORESISTIVE (GMR) SENSOR ARRAYS
Situation Rooms
I am teaching a course in computational cartography at UCLA and looking for examples of the latest technology in mapping changing geospatial information. I am looking for information on situation rooms and situation maps, the historical and contemporary evolution of the timely management of spatial information in quickly changing situations where decisions must be rendered under duress. These are war room command centers and operations centers. They are most developed in military applications although they are regularly in use in all strategic and tactical planning situations such as the police, search & rescue, air traffic control, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories. I have only found limited information on the information flow and display in such rooms. There is archival footage of them in World War II that is available but obscure. The standard response I receive from current operations is that the information is secret.
Control Centers
Center for Disease Control and Preventions - CDC
Pineapple Studios Control Room