Project Pandora
Introduction
The purpose of this document is to outline briefly the goals of the Integrity Applications Incorporated (IAI) MSE Studio Team.
Statement of Need
To date, IAI has primarily had its greatest successes in the software realm with projects that have a large visualization component, especially in the area of geospatial analysis. We have thrived in creating an easy-to-use web-based suite of tools that provides capabilities such as mapping, targeting, tracking, etc.
To better allow us to handle the dynamic needs of our many customers, we have created a visualization coding toolkit written in JAVA called Planet3. Planet3, itself, is a set of JAVA components that can be easily extended to meet the needs of the specific data sets and user preferences associated with a given customer. It is the standard front-end solution of choice for IAI visualization.
While IAI has secured a front-end toolkit, it does not yet have an internal toolkit that can be used on the back-end of a system for handling the parsing, automated analysis, and user notification associated with various data sets. It is the ultimate goal of the IAI MSE Studio Team to initiate the creation of a back-end analysis framework that can become the IAI standard code base for data analysis.
Project Implementation Goals
As was mentioned above, Planet3 is not a customer deliverable, itself. When a new customer approaches IAI with data visualization needs, the Planet3 toolkit is extended as necessary to build a solution specific to the individual needs of that customer. In an analogous fashion, the analysis framework to be built by the IAI Studio Team will not be designed to be a customer deliverable by itself. Its purpose is to be a development toolkit from which analysis solutions of new data types can be rapidly generated.
The analysis framework will likely be made of a set of components such as parsers, correlators, and digital models, that will be extensible as necessary to meet the needs of a specific data analysis solution. These components will likely reside within a large communication framework that can be easily attached to any visualization solution (including Planet3) to create a fully user-interactive tool. For more information on the concept of this framework, see the Analysis Framework PowerPoint brief.
Because a framework is not easily testable and demo-able by itself, the IAI Studio Team has chosen to implement the framework by creating a solution to a specific business problem. This problem deals with automatically detecting attacks on a satellite while in orbit. For more information, see our Project Proposal.
Last Updated: 10/01/2004