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The increasingly complex battlefield environment drives the requirement for the presentation and interactive control of the endless stream of information arriving from a diverse collection of sensors deployed on a variety of platforms. At best, the situational awareness picture is fragmented without the benefit of data fusion and correlation to present a true picture of the battlespace from all information sources. Collaboration and interaction is also needed for operators within a control center and among remote geographic locations. The need to display and manipulate real-time multimedia data in a battlefield operations control center is critical to the Joint Commander directing air, land, naval and space assets. The Interactive DataWall being developed by the Advanced Displays and Intelligent Interfaces (ADII) technology team of the Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/IF) in Rome, New York is a strong contender for solving the information management problems facing the 21 st century military commander. It provides an ultra high-resolution large screen display with wireless interaction. Commercial off-the-shelf technology has been combined with specialized hardware and software developed in-house to provide a unique capability for multimedia data display and control.

Public reporting burden for this collection of information i. estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reyiewlncMotions, searchngn"x '*^ d^"u "»£ aatrwrinoiaiii maintair.no the data needed, and completing end reviewing the collection of information. AFRL-IF-RS-TR-1999-251 SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY REPORT NUMBER AFRL-IF-RS-TR-1999-251 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES♦Litton PRC contractor, work performed under ADII Lab Support contract. AFRL Project Engineer: Peter A. Jedrysik/IFSB/(315)330-2150. 12a. DISTRIBUTION AVAILABILITY STATEMENTAPPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE; DISTRIBUTION UNLIMITED. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words} 12b. DISTRIBUTION CODEComposite display systems consisting of multiple video projectors and/or direct view monitors are becoming more commonplace as the needs for 3D stereoscopic viewing and very high-resolution large screen displays become more prevalent. In these installations, the goal is to take separate elements and obtain a single amalgamated view. The object of this in-house task was to develop a number of interactive display patterns that would provide a more accurate, time saving means to test and align video projects in a tiled Datawall configuration and an overlaid stereoscopic configuration. Several of these composite display systems are currently implemented in the Advanced Displays and Intelligent Interfaces (ADII) Visualization Facility at the Information Directorate of AFRL, in Rome, NY.