Capability

Confidence & Uncertainty

Confidence you can inspect.

Evidence levelE1Architecture Defined

The functional gap

A single number called confidence invites trust it has not earned. A reader needs to know what the number rests on, and what would change it.

From inputs to outputs

Takes in

The contributions behind a state
The age and quality of each observation
Gaps and disagreements between sources

Does

States confidence together with its reasons and shows how it changed. Unknown stays a state of its own and is never turned into zero or into safe.

Hands on

A confidence statement with its reasons
The change in confidence over time
Unknown shown as unknown

Confidence: Data table
Item	Value
Confidence	3 / 4
More sources agree	+
A source drops out	-

Confidence RD06Data status: Synthetic dataEvidence level: E0 · ConceptQuestion answered: How confident is the stateA segmented arc shows example confidence in four steps, beside a short list of the drivers that raise or lower it. Low confidence is never shown in red.Limitation: The value is invented. Confidence here is a way of reading, not a score.

A worked example

Three steps from a synthetic scenario, in relative terms.

A worked example Synthetic example
Step	What is seen	What is stated
1	A second source joins	Confidence rises, and the reason is named
2	Data stops arriving	Confidence falls gradually, not at once
3	No source covers an area	The area is shown as unknown, not as clear

Confidence
Uncertainty band

Confidence and its drivers: Data table
Time (relative)	Confidence	Uncertainty band
1	40	26 - 54
2	42	28 - 56
3	45	33 - 57
4	60	52 - 68
5	63	56 - 70
6	66	60 - 72
7	68	62 - 74
8	52	40 - 64
9	50	38 - 62
10	54	44 - 64
11	58	49 - 67
12	60	52 - 68

Confidence and its drivers CH04Data status: Synthetic dataEvidence level: E0 · ConceptQuestion answered: How did confidence evolveA line with a shaded band shows confidence rising when a new source joins and falling when one drops out. The band narrows as more sources agree.Limitation: The band is a drawn example of uncertainty, not a computed interval.

Confidence and uncertainty in this function

This function is the statement of confidence itself, so its own limit is simple: a stated confidence is a claim about the data, not a measurement of the world.

Evidence and maturity

This page claims nothing above the level of the projects it rests on.

Airspace Intelligence Core PlatformEvidence level: E1 · Architecture Defined
Multi-Sensor Fusion EngineEvidence level: E0 · Concept

Where it applies

What this does not claim

Confidence is not evidence; the evidence trail is a separate page.
The page describes how confidence is stated and states no calibration result.
A high confidence never means certainty, and unknown never means safe.

Projects behind this

Technology

Time Alignment & Data QualityBadly aligned data can tell a confident, wrong story.

Takes in

Does

Hands on

Projects behind this

Technology

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