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 AREAS  DECISION SUPPORT

Until a few years ago the connection between geographic information and decision-making consisted primarily in reaching conclusions based on static data analysis. Today's sensing and continuous update possibilities confer geographic information a special role - that of providing a strong support for achoring decisions in a dynamic and rich context.

 KEY FEATURES  Geographic information, as it is available today, is drastically changing decision-making activities through two key features:

• The availability of geographic information on a continuous rather than on a historical basis provides a temporal perspective for decision-making, and
• The diversity of information aspects related to a location or area provides the opportunity to synthesize and infer a deeper meaning regarding processes and developments, and thus to take decisions on higher-order facts than was previously possible.

 INTELLIGENT CAPABILITIES  In this context, Geontics supports customers in scoping, designing and implementing several key capabilities for developing decision-support functionality enhanced with geographic information:

• Support for relational and semantic analysis between entities in a geographic environment,
• Interfacing of knowledge-based software components with geographic information to synthesize high-value information for decision-support,
• Spatial/temporal geographic data mining for knowledge extraction, and
• Integration of optimisation software components with geographic data and information

 EXPERIENCE  Our experience in integrating advanced decision-support capabilities with geospatial information includes:

• Integrating inference systems with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to detect the occurrence of relevant events
• Planning courses of action in response to situations assessed based on information extracted from a GIS
• Configuring user interfaces and information streaming based on situations embedded in a geographic environment
• Planning logistic activities in response to geographically distributed information updates