Two-component capability

SitaWare WebCOP is a high-performance COP service with a small footprint and a big impact on decision-making. It is used for quickly and effectively aggregating large quantities of information to generate a common operational picture (COP) for land, maritime, air and joint-forces operations.

The SitaWare WebCOP solution consists of a dynamic map display – the Web COP Viewer – and a “back-office engine” – the Track Server itself. This monitors large numbers of different track types and collates them into a picture that gives commanders and their staff the overview essential for effective decisions in complex, fluid operating scenarios.

The SitaWare Web COP Viewer is a self-installing, easy-to-use web client that even untrained staff can use. It provides decision-makers with groundbreaking visual representations of a wide variety of different operational infrastructures, all available in a standard web browser window. 

Users get near-real time information about movements of land forces, vehicles, aircraft and ships in any designated area, combined with other displays showing features of interest and a range of different planning overlays. These give you a comprehensive, easy-to-grasp situational awareness capability with a huge geographical spread.

Where it’s used

SitaWare WebCOP solutions are normally installed as part of large, centralised headquarters set-ups in which there are large numbers of users.

It is essential to have high-bandwidth LAN networks available within the headquarters complex. WAN technologies, radio-based communication (HF, VHF, UHF, etc.) and satellite communications are normally required for links to subordinate units. All users access the system via the Web COP Viewer – a web client for each PC connected to the SitaWare Track Server.

SitaWare WebCOP provides:

• effective aggregation of disparate information from multiple data feeds
• maximum situational awareness with a huge geographical spread
• rapid, real-time COP distribution to all concerned
• effective collaborative planning
• transparent information sharing.

Features to note

• Completely independent of specific hardware and software set-ups – can be accessed from any connected computer, using only a standard web browser.
• Self-installing, doing away with most needs for on-site support.
• Straightforward and easy to use, with on-line tutorials to get users up to speed quickly. Very little training is needed.
• Specially designed for maximum performance even when displaying many thousands of tactical tracks in near-real time.
• Support for air, land and maritime tracks at the same time, via standardised information feeds.