Spatial decision support systems for forest management have steadily evolved over the past 20+ years in order to better address the complexities of contemporary forest management issues such as the sustainability and resilience of ecosystems on forested landscapes. In this paper, we describe and illustrate new features of the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system that extend the s...

he application of tactical spacecraft or satellite constellations in support of warfighters has tremendous benefit in a dynamic battlefield environment. Today warfighters must queue behind a long list of higher-priority requests and wait for scarce opportunity to access space-based assets. By the time the information collected becomes available, it is often obsolete and has little tactical valu...

The long-term goal of this project is to develop new and emerging analysis and forecast capabilities via improvements to environmental inputs to electro-magnetic (EM) tactical applications through Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) enhanced high-resolution mesoscale data assimilation and modeling. These capabilities will be achieved through the formulation, testing, evaluation, and demonstration of ...

Traditionally, for tactical Command & Control (C2), the Marine Corps utilized strictly voice communications as a result of continued reliability, modern innovative technology vulnerabilities, and the lack of ubiquitous data connectivity. Recently, driven by the technology advances there has been a shift in the paradigm toward more utilization of data applications, such as tactical chat and Blue...

Certain limitations remain unaddressed when utilizing the Teaching Games for Understanding approach, suggesting the need for more research on authentic assessment of skill development and tactical awareness in order to guide the design of developmentally appropriate curriculum materials. This study investigated physical education students' (n=19; age: 13.71 ± 0.4) game performance during an inv...

A prototype decision support system (DSS) was developed to enhance Navy tactical decision making based on naturalistic decision processes. Displays were developed to support critical decision making tasks through recognition-primed and explanation-based reasoning processes, and cognitive analysis was conducted of the decision making problems faced by Navy tactical officers in a shipboard Combat...

This paper presents and discusses how context is being used to model intelligent human activity – specifically, tactical actions. Tactical behavior involves selection and execution of courses of action that address the current needs of the agent. The discussion centers about the work done in the author’s research laboratory that addresses tactical behavior by an agent. A limited discussion abou...

  Long-term complications of retained war fragments in the body are not completely known. Also, bullet migration and slow resorption of metals and distortion in some imaging modalities are frequent and well recognized complications but, now we are concerned about neoplastic changes near the retained war fragments. We reviewed the literature on complication of retained war fragments and report o...

Remote sensing is useful in several modes of oil spill control, including large area surveillance, site specific monitoring and tactical assistance in emergencies. Remote sensing is able to provide essential information to enhance strategic and tactical decision-making, potentially reducing incidence of spills by providing a deterrent factor, decreasing response costs by facilitating rapid oil ...