Publikation
Multimodal Situational Awareness for Civil-Military Coordination in Port Disruption Scenarios
Sabine Janzen; Rishika Kumari; Wolfgang Maaß
In: Caroline Rizza; Apoorva Chauhan; Amy Matser; Joyce Kox; Willem Treurniet; Jeroen Wolbers (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the 23rd ISCRAM Conference. International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM-2026), Netherlands, 6/2026.
Zusammenfassung
Disruptions in port access and transport infrastructures pose significant challenges for crisis management and
civil–military coordination, particularly in dual-use environments. Decision-makers must cope with heterogeneous,
incomplete, and partially conflicting information under time pressure. This work-in-progress paper introduces
ARGUS, a generic multimodal decision-support architecture designed to consolidate diverse information sources
into structured, geo-referenced incidents with explicit confidence values and traceable evidence. To explore the
feasibility of core architectural concepts, a proof-of-concept instantiation is implemented for the port region of
Wilhelmshaven, integrating a limited set of representative modalities, including emergency communication audio,
social media reports, and hydrological sensor data. Exploratory results suggest that multimodal fusion can combine
multiple raw alerts into fewer, more coherent incident views for specific port-access routes. At the same time, the
proof of concept reveals challenges in merging nearby events too aggressively, interpreting confidence scores, and
managing information in environments where civilian and military actors operate together.