| dc.description.abstract | The Decision Support and Risk Assessment for Operational Effectiveness (DeSRA) 2017 Conference
Proceedings contain the peer-reviewed abstracts accepted for this conference. The DeSRA 2017
Conference took place at the NATO STO CMRE facilities in La Spezia, Italy, on 2-4 October 2017. Its
overarching objective was to bring together personnel from the military, civilian, industry and research
communities to discuss and identify environmental risks, planning shortfalls and ways-ahead to assist
decision makers and improve operational effectiveness. These Conference Proceedings contain a total
of 27 abstracts covering all the topics of the conference, such as: Recognized Environmental Picture
(REP) and Risk Assessment; Environmental Information Flow for Decision Support and Command
and Control (C2); Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (MISR); and Operational
Experimentation (OPEX) Opportunities.
Researchers and industry were exposed to real challenges faced in operations from the military and
civilian organizations/institutions participating. Besides the speakers of the 27 Abstracts published in
these proceedings, additional military and civilian personnel attended the DeSRA 2017 Conference to
learn about state-of-the-art techniques and systems on the topics of the conference. They also had the
opportunity to make contributions and influence the development of these techniques and systems. A
total of 2 NATO bodies: ACO/SHAPE and STO CMRE, and 20 institutions/organizations from 13
NATO and Partner nations: 1 CAN, 2 DEU, 1 DNK, 2 ESP, 4 FRA, 2 GBR, 4 ITA, 1 NLD, 1 NOR, 1
NZL, 1 USA, participated in this NATO STO CMRE-lead conference. Details of the contributions
made by the participants are incorporated in the Abstracts provided in these DeSRA 2017 Conference
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