Conceptualization of Military’s Common Operation Picture for the Enhancement of Disaster Preparedness and Response During Emergency and Communication Blackout

The military's common operation picture (COP) is the concept where situation awareness is created before the eyes of high ranking commanders who gather remotely in a command and control headquarters to provide imperative advices and to make decision upon the emergency mission carried out by on-site soldiers. The underlying rationale is to integrate relevant technologies in order to enhance the situation awareness for disaster preparedness and quick response to emergency and communication blackout. The objective of the concept is to apply the COP created by combined geospatial and serious game for modelling military in-field operations during an incident of lacking communications. The paper explains the project initiated in the Defence Technology Institute that covers the plan to implement the integration of communications, military simulation and training, and unmanned vehicle technologies for the emerging situation awareness to be viewed from the COP. It will house current data and information of rescuer positions, images and live videos. In the commissioned vehicle, a dedicated map server is to host in-coming disparate data that has gone through digital image and video processing. For the COP display, Game Engine will play as a theatre that all data interacts in a common and easy-to-understand view. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.