Remote Data Set Manipulation and Fusion via Bandwidth-Independent Networks

"The approach described within this proposal focuses on thedevelopment and application of compression and communicationsprotocol enhancements that will facilitate the search, remotemanipulation, fusion, and dissemination of huge data sets andtheir products through existing communications channels. Thetarget of our research includes products of the TacticalEnvironmental Data Server (TEDS) system and numerous METOC,navigation, environmental, and other products which manifest verylarge data sets that are difficult or impossible to speedilyobtain or update while deployed due to their large size andcommunication channel limitations. Instrumental in the deliveryof large data sets is the process of selecting the data to becommunicated. We describe our methods for compressing andhandling these data, and identify work efforts for thedevelopment of the client-server architecture envisioned to beused for this purpose.BENEFITS: Anticipated improvements include order of magnitude improvement in data managementcapabilities of remote users restricted by low bandwidth communications channels.Commercial opportunities exist in providing access to data at locations, especiallyin third world countries, where the data communications infrastructure isrudimentary or non-existent and low-bandwidth satellite communications is the onlyoption."