Measuring the worthiness of situation assessment

Situation Assessment (SA) modeling has many instances of development, but there has yet to be a comprehensive set of metrics used for performance evaluation. The amount of data being presented and displayed to the analyst is overwhelming - to a point that in many cases they are missing the salient or key activities of interest (AOI). Analysts are spending the majority of their time filtering through the data rather than performing analysis. To aid the user (high-level information fusion), we explore the nature of how we can rank various activities based on their impact and threat. We develop a information fusion SA reference model over SA metrics of confidence (precision, recall), accuracy, activities of interest, timeliness and throughput to determine the intent and assessment of situation activities.