Information fusion in anti asymmetric warfare and low intensity conflicts

Information fusion is a key factor for insuring information superiority in various military and civil surveillance systems. Military applications may be found in air defence, force and convoy protection, and combat management systems for naval ships. Coastal and urban surveillance, air traffic control, and Harbour protection address more civil areas. A new aspect in all these applications is the issue of new types of threats, e. g. anti asymmetric warfare and low intensity conflicts. Consideration of these new types of asymmetric threats leads to new requirements and very new concepts for design, implementation and integration of the information fusion and visualisation process. Also the usage of network information on different abstraction levels and its visualisation becomes an essential issue in anti asymmetric warfare. This paper presents some of the aspects and concepts related to information fusion and its visualisation within the mentioned systems realizing anti asymmetric warfare aspects.