MOBILE AND ONE-TOUCH TASKING AND VISUALIZATION OF SENSOR DATA

1 . A data tasking and visualization system, the system comprising:

a computing device comprising:

a screening module configured to receive a screening policy selection from a user associated with the computing device, the screening policy selection being selected from a plurality of screening policies and each of the plurality of screening policies being indicative of a mission event,

a transmitter configured to transmit the screening policy selection to one or more sensor platforms,

a receiver configured to receive one or more data sets from the one or more sensor platforms in response to the transmission of the screening policy selection, and

a display device configured to display the one or more data sets to the user.

2 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising the computing device further comprising:

a identification module configured to associate one or more annotations received from the user with the one or more data sets, and

the transmitter configured to transmit the one or more annotations to a screening policy server.

3 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

the one or more sensor platforms, each sensor platform of the one or more sensor platforms comprising:

a receiver configured to:

receive the screening policy selection from the computing device, and

receive sensor data from one or more sensors,

a data screening module configured to generate a data set from the sensor data based on the screening policy selection, and

a transmitter configured to transmit the data set to the computing device.

4 . The system of claim 3 , further comprising each of the one or more sensor platforms further comprising:

a multimedia pattern matching module configured to identify one or more mission-relevant objects in the sensor data based on the screening policy selection, the sensor data comprises image data, video data, or any combination thereof,

a multimedia tagging module configured to associate one or more data tags with the sensor data associated with the identified one or more mission-relevant objects based on the mission event, and

the transmitter further configured to transmit the sensor data associated with the identified one or more mission-relevant objects and the associated one or more data tags to the computing device.

5 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a screening policy server comprising:

a receiver configured to:

receive sensor data and data sets from the one or more sensor platforms, and

receive screening policy selections from a plurality of computing devices,

a data repository module configured to store the sensor data, the data sets, and the screening policy selections, and

a screening policy generation module configured to generate the plurality of screening policies based on the stored sensor data, the stored data sets, and the stored screening policy selections.

6 . The system of claim 5 , further comprising the screening policy generation module of the screening policy server further configured to modify at least one of the plurality of screening policies based on the stored sensor data, the stored data sets, and the stored screening policy selections.

7 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising the screening module of the computing device further configured to determine a set of screening policies from the plurality of screening policies based on one or more mission parameters.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the one or more mission parameters comprises a real-time mission event, a planned mission event, a user preference, a data type associated with the sensor data, or any combination thereof.

9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of screening policies comprise a model-based policy, a statistics-based policy, a learning-based policy, a event-driven policy, or any combination thereof.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is a mobile computing device.

11 . A method for data tasking and visualization of data, the method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a screening policy selection from a user associated with the computing device, the screening policy selection being selected from a plurality of screening policies and each of the plurality of screening policies being indicative of a mission event;

transmitting, by the computing device, the screening policy selection to one or more sensor platform devices;

receiving, by the computing device, one or more data sets from the one or more sensor platform devices in response to the transmission of the screening policy selection; and

displaying, by the computing device, the one or more data sets to the user.

12 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

associating, by the computing device, one or more annotations received from the user with the one or more data sets; and

transmitting, by the computing device, the one or more annotations to a screening policy server.

13 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving, by a sensor platform device of the one or more sensor platform devices, the screening policy selection from the computing device;

receiving, by the sensor platform device, sensor data from one or more sensors,

generating, by the sensor platform device, a data set from the sensor data based on the screening policy selection; and

transmitting, by the sensor platform device, the data set to the computing device.

14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

identifying, by the sensor platform device, one or more mission-relevant objects in the sensor data based on the screening policy selection, the sensor data comprises image data, video data, or any combination thereof;

associating, by the sensor platform device, one or more data tags with the sensor data associated with the identified one or more mission-relevant objects based on the mission event; and

transmitting, by the sensor platform device, the sensor data associated with the identified one or more mission-relevant objects and the associated one or more data tags to the computing device.

15 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising determining, by the computing device, a set of screening policies from the plurality of screening policies based on one or more mission parameters.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more mission parameters comprises a real-time mission event, a planned mission event, a user preference, a data type associated with the sensor data, or any combination thereof.

17 . A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer program product including instructions being operable to cause a data processing apparatus to:

receive a screening policy selection from a user associated with the computing device, the screening policy selection being selected from a plurality of screening policies and each of the plurality of screening policies being indicative of a mission event;

transmit the screening policy selection to one or more sensor platform devices;

receive one or more data sets from the one or more sensor platform devices in response to the transmission of the screening policy selection; and

display the one or more data sets to the user.