Patent ID: 7564347

Claim:
A system comprising: a core module operable to logically identify one or more surveillance resources for surveilling one or more targets, each surveillance resource comprising one or more sensors of one or more sensor systems, the core module comprising: one or more sensor tags each identifying one or more of the sensors; and one or more strategies that each correspond to one of the sensor tags, each strategy specifying how the sensors identified in the sensor tag corresponding to the strategy should carry out surveillance; and one or more target definitions operable to logically define one or more targets for surveillance according to geography and without reference to target type, each target definition being logically linkable to the core module to enable application of the surveillance resources logically identified by the core module to the targets logically defined by the target definition according to instructions from a tasking authority or a user outside the tasking authority; wherein the core module and the target definitions are remote from the sensor systems, the tasking authority, and the user.