Interoperable Sharing of Data with the Coalition Shared Data (CSD)

In crisis management quick and full situation awareness is essential to enable adequate countermeasures and reactions. Relevant information has to be distributed to agencies and decision makers. To overcome the limitations of today’s stovepiped ISR systems, interoperable transnational systems, capable of including all relevant data sources and sharing them among law enforcement bodies, are needed. To enforce the interoperability of ISR systems the multinational nine-nation intelligence and surveillance project MAJIIC (Multi-Sensor Aerospace-Ground Joint ISR Interoperability Coalition) developed standards, technologies and an architecture that allow commanders to instantly tap into real-time data from a number of NATO and national systems. Standardized data dissemination is the key in achieving interoperability. A Coalition Shared Data (CSD) server, which is based on STANAG 4559 is the core of that architecture and enables the dissemination and storage of data from heterogeneous sensors from different nations, as well as tasking information and sensor data exploitation results. To make information available no matter where it is stored and where it is needed, the CSD concept envisions the near real-time synchronization of the metadata between different servers. The information about products in the CSD is available in the whole network, regardless of where those products ar