eMontage: An architecture for rapid integration of situational awareness data at the edge

This paper presents an architecture for rapid integration of situational awareness data on mobile handheld devices in resource-constrained, hostile environments. This capability will give users in crisis environments access to relevant data presented on a single screen with a consistent user interface. The framework and architecture discussed here enable the rapid addition of both publicly available and domain-specific data sources. This solution enables users to construct geospatial data mashups. Our architecture for accessing and filtering data from multiple sources provides benefits such as combining data from real-time and historical sources, operating in connected or disconnected modes, supporting individual selection and filtering of data, and integrating data from multiple sources.