Distributed Sensor Networks, 2nd Edition

27

Emergence of Human-Centric Information Fusion

David L. Hall

The Pennsylvania State University

27.1    Introduction

27.2    Participatory Observing: Humans as Sensors

27.3    Hybrid Human/Computer Analysis: Humans as Analysts

27.4    Collaborative Decision Making: Crowd-Sourcing of Analysis

27.5    Summary

Acknowledgments

References

27.1    Introduction

The conventional focus of the data fusion community has involved using physical sensor sources such as visual and infrared imagery, radar, satellite, and acoustic sensor data to observe physical entities like troops, vehicles, weapon systems, or other objects. This type of sensor activity has been useful for performing tracking, situation assessment, and threat assessment for military ...