TIRAMISU Advanced Intelligence Decision Support System

Advanced Intelligence Decision Support System (AI DSS) is an operational Non-Technical Survey (NTS) system for collecting and processing (additional) data about suspected hazardous areas (SHA) ; data fusion and producing thematic (danger) maps about SHA. The existing Advanced Intelligence Decision Support System (AI DSS) was upgraded within FP7 project TIRAMISU (Toolbox Implementation for Removal of Anti-Personnel Mines, Submunitions and UXO) into TIRAMISU Advanced Intelligence Decision Support System (T–AI DSS) by implementing various new and improved sub-modules. T-AI DSS has benefited from the development of its components in TIRAMISU. The gaps identified by end-users and system operators have been filled in. The objectives include increasing its robustness, decreasing the workload of the operator, improving the semi-automatic mapping of features of interest for the detection of unexploded ordnance UXO, developing simpler imagery and data collecting units, implementing new sensors, optimizing application on different aerial platforms, verification in applications. T-AI DSS is an operational Non-Technical Survey (NTS) system which can integrate several NTS TIRAMISU tools and also use results obtained by several TIRAMISU tools which are not integrated into a system. The system consists of several sub-systems: for aerial multisensor image and data acquisition, for pre-processing and processing, for management of knowledge and contextual information, for implementing the outcomes of subjective photointerpretation, for fusion at pixel level, at features level and at decisions level. T-AI DSS is the only NTS tool within the frame of TIRAMISU that performs fusion. T-AI DSS is the operational TIRAMISU solution for NTS that is proposed to the mine action centres (MAC) worldwide because it is adaptable to specific terrain and situations. A simplified version (without remote sensing data acquisition) has also been developed that can be used in MACs for the support in the SHA assessment, reduction, re-categorisation and inclusion, indicating only mine presence and mine absence derived from MIS data. Services will be provided to realise NTS mission, to ensure transfer of know-how and capacity building.