Abstract: Observers in the theater of operations use remote units to encode and transmit messages characterizing multiple events observed in theater of operations. The messages are composed from a predefined set of symbolic ideograms, representing and describing actions or objects likely to occur in the theater of operations. A central control center receives the multiple incoming transmissions. The messages are decoded and processed to produce a holistic accumulation of the various observations. According to one embodiment, the accumulation might graphically recompose theater activity according to correlated data received from the observers.