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Historically, one of the impediments to the maturation of the field if data and information fusion (DF/IF) was its lack of a standard taxonomy (classification conventions) or nomenclature, (naming conventions). The community has made great strides in these areas for Level 1 (L1) processing but has not addressed the terminology associated with Levels 2 and 3 (L2, L3) in nearly so rigorous a fashion. So one of the first topics that should be addressed as we contemplate formalization of technical approaches is that of language. The following are simple extractions from [1] but the reader is referred to [2] for a collection of some 24 different definitions of the phrase “situational awareness” drawn strictly from military or aerospace-type literature. The taxonomy of the US Joint Directors of Laboratories Data Fusion Group (“JDL/DFG”), [3] the primary US data fusion technology oversight organization, is another useful reference for fusion-related terminology.
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Llinas, J. (2002). Reexamining Data Fusion Processing at Levels 2, 3, and 4. In: Hyder, A.K., Shahbazian, E., Waltz, E. (eds) Multisensor Fusion. NATO Science Series, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0556-2_5
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