Airspace Battle Management Tactical Data Mining
Our product, Horus, analyses air traffic radar and other sensor data to 'learn' the patterns of aircraft behaviour across very large volumes of airspace. Once 'trained' the system can automatically identify flights that exhibit unusual or suspicious behaviour (for example, the sort of unusual behaviour that presaged the “9/11” terrorist strikes) and provide an alert to air traffic, or air defence, operators.
Horus represents a product world first. The product incorporates a novel, extremely polished and highly usable user interface. Horus not only has immediate applications for Defence in a range of scenarios, but is already drawing interest from the Air Traffic Control community, both domestically and internationally.
However, it’s application is not restricted to simply airspace data, but could easily be applied to maritime tracks of vessel movements as well, providing assistance for identification of activities such as illegal immigration and smuggling, supporting many levels of border protection. Its strength lies in processing large volumes of track data, so could also be applied to problems relating to traffic engineering, city planning, and identifying animal movement patterns (for example on large stations or for biological research).
Please see the Horus product flyer for more information.
