A Situational Centre is a complex of specially organized workplaces intended for individual and cooperative analytical activities involving operational management, control and monitoring of various objects and situations. The basic purpose of a Situational Centre is to give support for making strategic decisions on the basis of visual representation and advanced analytical processing of current information.
Situational centers collect relevant data including data based on earth remote sensing (ERS), analyze these data, prepare descriptive information and analytical materials, simulate scenarios for managers and experts, and provide visual representation of data prepared.
By their range of activity Situational centers can nominally be divided into:
- Strategic centers (used by federal and regional public authorities, federal ministries and large national and transnational companies; intended for solving global problems, predicting long-term tendencies);
- Tactical centers (including dispatch centers; used by economic and municipal boards, large companies, emergency services).
Situational centers can solve the following tasks:
- Monitoring the condition of controlled objects, forecasting the development of situations on the basis of analysis of the incoming data;
- Modeling the consequences of managerial decisions using informational and analytical systems (IAS);
- Expert assessment of decisions and their optimization;
- Crisis management.
There are stationary and movable situational centers.
One of the core profiles of Sovzond is creation of Situational Centers for solving tasks related to regional and sectoral management using hardware and software intended for visual representation of spatial data and informational and analytical support on the basis of geoinformation technologies, satellite images and digital maps.
The situational centre consists of hardware, software and informational-and-analytical packages.
