Valérie Lavigne

• Researcher at Defence Research and Development Canada

Information superiority is one of the primary enablers for military dominance; the exploitation of all relevant information from multiple sources is a key factor for NATO’s information superiority. Visualization and visual analytics research are essential to address the needs of the 2015 NATO targets of emphasis in Information Analysis (IA) & Decis...

Dealing with an ever increasing amount of data is a challenge that military intelligence analysts or team of analysts face day to day. Increased individual and collective comprehension goes through collaboration between people. Better is the collaboration, better will be the comprehension. Nowadays, various technologies support and enhance collabor...

In the context of modern defense and security operations, analysts are faced with a continuously growing set of information of different nature that causes significant information overload problems and prevents developing good situation awareness. Fortunately, Visual Analytics (VA) has emerged as an efficient way of handling and making sense of mas...

Defence R&D Canada has undertaken an R&D initiative to investigate and develop Intelligent Software Assistant (ISA) technologies to support intelligence analysts in sense making tasks. One aspect of the project is related to the Human-Computer Interaction between the virtual assistant and the users. Two key requirements are to support a dialogue be...

Maintaining situation awareness in the maritime domain is a challenging mandate. Task analysis activities were conducted to identify where visual analytics science and technology could improve maritime domain awareness and reduce information overload. Three promising opportunities were identified: the visualization of normal maritime behaviour, ano...

Over the last several years, the Canadian Forces (CF) have been called to conduct operations taking place in very complex counter-insurgency (COIN) environments. The Canadian COIN doctrine emphasizes the political and social issues that are an intrinsic part of the current CF operations. In parallel, literature as well as our allies? military pract...

Collective command and control (C2) civil-military operations impose a strong requirement for organizations and people to work collaboratively and to interact with information more efficiently. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technology has been evolving at a great pace during the last decade and many novel HCI concepts and tools have become of in...

Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect...

To improve airborne search and rescue operations and the general aerial surveillance efficiency, new concepts of multiple field-of-view and variable-resolution imagers have been developed. These imagers provide surveillance operators with simultaneous wide area coverage and high-resolution imaging. Over the last years, several optical steering syst...

Built around two infrared cameras and a high-speed opto-mechanical pointing mechanism, the Infrared Eye attempts to mimic the human eye by superimposing a high-resolution narrow field of view (first camera) for target identification over a lower resolution wide field of view (second camera) for situation awareness. A high-performance opto-mechanica...

The Infrared Eye project was developed at DRDC Valcartier to improve the efficiency of airborne search and rescue operations. A high performance opto-mechanical pointing system was developed to allow fast positioning of a narrow field of view with high resolution, used for search and detection, over a wide field of view of lower resolution that opt...

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