Sponsor: Ron Larsen, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Technology Office

1. GeoWorlds ==> Genoa Worlds:Digital Library and Geographic Information SystemsTechnology Integration and Demonstration Robert NechesMurilo Coutinho, Vished Kumar, Rich Markle, Alpesh Gaglani USC Information Sciences Institute4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292 www.ISI.edu/geoworlds Sponsor: Ron Larsen, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Technology Office

2. Distributed Collaborative Enterprises:Mindshare Across Organizations • Electronic Commerce: managing commerce in complex, custom services • Military/commercial command and control: coordinated response to shared situation assessment Component based technology needed to address recurrent problems • Improve visibilityof partners • Reduce isolationbetween activities • Open uprigid processes ? Search/matchmaking aids, product/service taxonomies needed Knowledge-based protocols needed for integration Representations, collaboration environments, agent technology needed to express & act upon tradeoffs

3. Goals of GeoWorlds • Regional Vision: synergy between documents and geographic views • Show current potential of technology for crucial applications (e.g., Disaster Relief) • Identify promising future directions

4. Core Ideas • What? • Regional Vision: marshal everything known about an area, displayed in space and time, to help understand a situation • How? • Geographic Information Systems on steroids • Rich geographic visualization + real-time sensor data monitoring+ powerful document analysis tools + graphic information display environment + user-programmable interpretation and presentation tools

5. For Who? • Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief • Intelligence Analysis • "When and where were outbreaks of unrest reported in Chiapas?” • "What do we know about the region west of Baghdad?" • Command Post of the Future • Placing reports from the field in geospatial context • Transnational Threat Assessment • “What’s the implication of placing my base of operations here?” • Other applications • Law enforcement, urban development, transportation planning, agriculture, natural resource management, supply control

6. Coast Guard California Highways San Diego Fire Sample: The Future Identify kinds of information of interest See what’s known Focus on a sub-region Understand the locations Update & monitor View specific images and documents in context Extract, analyze, simulate, model

7. UC Santa Barbara Geographic Data Store USC Geography Geographic Data Consulting U. of Ill. Dig. Lib Analysis of sensor data NCSA Collaborative viewingof GeoWorlds information UC Berkeley Group annotation of maps and documents U. of Arizona Document ClusteringDocument Summarization Disaster Relief Application and Components USC ISI Geographic Visualization Information Visualization Integrating Vision and Arch. Management Oversight Scenario Definition: ISISPAWAR Systems CenterPACOM • Situation Assessment • Extent of disaster • Regional knowledge • Affected parties • Response Preparation • Response team info • Potential resources • Plans and support info • Feasibility Assessment • Geographic “Reality Check” • Plan animation

8. Observers and Consultants • US Pacific Command • Crisis Ops signed up 22 September 98 to become testbed user • Virtual Information Center • 21st Century Command Center team observing • BBN/GTE • Hawaii Center of Excellence for Disaster Relief • Pacific Disaster Center • National Research Council • Study on Distributed Geolibraries • Exploring applications to counterterrorism • National Economic Council, The White House

9. Data-Flow Block Diagram:Scenario Overview Incident Location Geo-location of region affected ISI GeoViewer UCSB Alexandria Place Names Database DisasterResponseTeam ISIDASHER USC Plume Analyzer UCSB Gazetteer UIUC HDF Web ISIDASHER ISI DASHER Documents UCSB Images/Maps Locationrefs Selected Set of Documents Custom Categorization of Documents Comments GeoWorlds Collaboration Environment NCSA Habanero Inside UCBAnnotation Tools U. Ill.VRML Viewer UAz

10. Incremental Build Approach

11. Example: 3rd Fleet Disaster Relief Preparedness Planning Template • Checklist of concerns: • transportation • communications • public works... Types ofPotentialProviders • What resources are there? • Where are they located? • How does their locationinteract with the situation?

12. Tools for identifying and organizing information of interest:Collaborative Development of Thematic Navigators

13. Multiple tools: Ability to manage multiple incidents Rapid focus on information about incident region

14. Identify affected areas Begin to explore impact Select information desired

15. Pull up documents about the area Inspect documents, organized by function

16. Develop additional information on-the-fly Pull up information as needed

17. Status (as of 26 Oct 98) • Technical team in place, kick-off meeting held 4-5 June, 1998 • ISI / SPAWAR collaborating on scenario in consultation with PACOM • Chem/bio incident impacting San Diego • First three integration meetings held • PACOM signed up as testbed user after receiving demo of release 3 • Also demonstrated at Internet2, San Francisco, Sept. 28-30 • Shown to San Diego Disaster Response First Responders Council, Oct 5 • Release 4 now being shown in demos • Information Management P/I Meeting & PACOM, Honolulu, Oct. 26-30 • Supercomputing / Next Generation Internet, Orlando, Nov 9-12 • Scheduled for demonstration in NATO Exercise, April 99

18. What’s in GeoWorlds - the Demo? • Now • COTS map views • Collaborative Information Space Analysis Framework • Component clustering technologies • Synchronous collaboration • By the end of the exercise • Concept of a service registry / service selection • (Slow) analysis of region-document relations • (Unstructured) annotation - asynchronous collaboration • (Anticipated) ties to real-time data

19. What’s in GeoWorlds - the Future?A Partial List of Challenges • Geographic Visualization • Custom repositories on demand: “dartboard at the map” • Analysis speed • Automated vs. interactive support: collaborative data librarians • Intelligent integration of services • Summarization/focusing: what really matters? • Sentinels • User control (e.g., instrumented connectors)