Patent ID: H0002208

Claim:
The method of detecting and tracking chemical and biological warfare agent plumes over a geographic area, said method comprising the steps of: disposing a plurality of diverse input condition responsive warfare agent sensor elements above said geographic area of detecting and tracking; coupling an output from each of said diverse input condition responsive warfare agent sensor elements to a sensor-specific first level intelligent agent decision element in a hierarchical array of intelligent agent decision elements; extracting, in said sensor specific first level intelligent agent decision element, cloud-related signal indicia from said output, said extracting including applying segmented output data and first level intelligent agent knowledge base data to a decision engine algorithm portion of said sensor-specific first level intelligent agent decision element to generate a sensor-specific first level intelligent agent decision element eXtensible markup language document type definition output; said sensor-specific first level intelligent agent decision element eXtensible markup language document type definition output also including a cloud identification output and a warfare agent sensor element output quality-determined first confidence signal; applying said eXtensible markup language document type definition output of said sensor-specific first level intelligent agent decision element to a plurality of second and successive other mid level intelligent agent decision elements in said hierarchical array of intelligent agent decision elements; evaluating in said mid level intelligent agent elements cloud, weather condition, ground condition and cloud duplicate related outputs received via said mid level eXtensible markup language document type definition outputs of said first level intelligent agent elements; said evaluating step including a determination of possible natural cause for said cloud-related outputs, a determination of said cloud-related outputs being a warfare agent plume and a determination of a second confidence signal, said determinations being encoded into an intelligent agent decision element eXtensible markup language document type definition output; connecting said second intelligent agent decision element eXtensible markup language document type definition output to a plurality of upper level intelligent agent decision elements in said hierarchical array of intelligent agent decision elements; and determining in said plurality of upper level intelligent agent decision elements in said hierarchical array of intelligent agent decision elements an occurrence of a warfare substance attack event and a course of travel for said warfare agent plume in said geographic area, said determining including determining a third confidence signal level and encoding of said determining step signals into an intelligent agent decision element eXtensible markup language document type definition output.