Exposing Military Sensor Data using SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC)

Providing relevant sensor data for military decision makers to build and maintain their situational awareness is a persistent problem, preventing proper utilization of collected sensor data. In this paper, we propose to mitigate this by using a data lake solution controlled by a data catalog modelling its metadata according to SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC), a specification from the satellite imagery community. The feasibility of this setup is illustrated by a military maritime use case backed by an experimental sensor data infrastructure.