1. Summary

The different North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries each have their own drones and radars. All these units record data (video or target) and label them with GPS data. This recorded data is currently stored on disc in a folder structure and can only be found by browsing these folder based on date and time. However, the data is not searchable on GPS location.

One wish of the NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) was that one can do a search query based on date, time and GPS area. We created a webpage where one can draw an area on a map to perform a search. We had to store the data in a clever way to do the GPS based queries on this huge amount of data in real time. When someone wants to rewatch a certain stream, this is re-streamed by us to that specific person.

Every country implemented this in their own way, so we had to communicate within certain protocols to make it possible to query other countries data as well.

2. System

Unfortunately, most of the information is classified so I can not tell too much. The data is streamed over multicast. This is collected and analysed. This application has been set up in such a way that you can decide yourself which processing blocks you want to use. The database is set up in a way to query this huge amount of data real time. The website has a search page, a result page and a view page where one can see the data on a map (and possibly the corresponding video).

3. Background Information

See summary.