This paper describes an application of sequential Monte Carlo estimation (particle filtering) to the problem of tracking targets occasionally hidden in the blind Doppler zones of a radar. A particle filter which incor...
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(纸本)0819441872
This paper describes an application of sequential Monte Carlo estimation (particle filtering) to the problem of tracking targets occasionally hidden in the blind Doppler zones of a radar. A particle filter which incorporates the prior knowledge of the blind Doppler zone limits has been designed. The simulation results suggest significant improvement in track continuity over the standard Extended Kalman filter. As an operationally viable solution a hybrid tracker is envisaged which can switch between the EKF (with possibly built-in data association logic) and the particle filter, depending on the tracking conditions.
This paper describes the Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCT) which is integrated into an automated object detection framework capable of fast image processing for the purpose of tracking multiple objects of intere...
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(纸本)9780819497079
This paper describes the Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCT) which is integrated into an automated object detection framework capable of fast image processing for the purpose of tracking multiple objects of interest. The distinguishing difference between FDCT and other transforms is that the Curvelet coefficients have three beneficial parameters, which define scale, orientation, and spatial locations. We utilize these parameters to efficiently detect relatively small objects in a variety of image and video data sets. We have implemented the FDCT in a multi-stage automatic target recognition (ATR) architecture. The results of the current algorithm yield a highly sensitive detection of smalltargets in noisy backgrounds.
Accurate tracking of a ballistic missile from launch to impact requires the use of multiple models to fully exploit the characteristic dynamic differences between the various flight phases. This paper shows that the l...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819436747
Accurate tracking of a ballistic missile from launch to impact requires the use of multiple models to fully exploit the characteristic dynamic differences between the various flight phases. This paper shows that the loosely-coupled, autonomous multiple model strategy used by ASA's TOTS (Target Oriented Tracking System) is very successful in this context, giving accurate tracking and responsiveness to changes in dynamics. For illustration, examples of red ballistic missiles are used, with data provided by several distributed ground-based radars, covering the entire flight trajectory.
An examination of the application of Space Time Adaptive processing (STAP) techniques to real, multi-channel, medium grazing angle, radar sea clutter data is undertaken and the detection performance is quantified agai...
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(纸本)9780819497079
An examination of the application of Space Time Adaptive processing (STAP) techniques to real, multi-channel, medium grazing angle, radar sea clutter data is undertaken and the detection performance is quantified against simulated moving maritime surface targets. The application of sub-optimal STAP approaches to the maritime radar detection problem is shown to be complicated by non-stationarity of sea clutter and rapid variations of the sea clutter spectrum due to transient wave activity. Observed performance gains from maritime STAP are much more limited than those observed for Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI) due to the inherent spectral width of sea clutter and the slow Doppler velocities of maritime targets. Three sub-optimal STAP processing architectures are examined and PRI-Staggered Post-Doppler is shown to provide consistently superior detection performance for the data set in question.
When two targets are closely-spaced with respect to the resolution of a radar, the measurements of the two targets will be merged when the target echoes are not resolved in angle, range, or radial velocity (i.e., Dopp...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819425850
When two targets are closely-spaced with respect to the resolution of a radar, the measurements of the two targets will be merged when the target echoes are not resolved in angle, range, or radial velocity (i.e., Doppler processing). Monopulse processing is considered for Direction-Of-Arrival (DOA) estimation of two unresolved Rayleigh targets with known relative Radar Cross Section (RCS). The probability distribution of the complex monopulse ratio is developed for two unresolved Rayleigh targets. The Fisher information matrix and Cramer Rao bounds are developed for the DOA estimation of two unresolved Rayleigh targets using a standard monopulse radar. When the two Rayleigh targets are separated by more than one-half of the radar beamwidth, DOA estimation is accomplished for each target by treating the other target as interference. When the two targets are separated by less than one-half of a beamwidth, the antenna boresight is pointed between the two targets, and the mean of the in-phase (i.e.,the real part) monopulse ratio and the variance of the in-phase and quadrature monopulse ratios are utilized to estimate the DOAs of the two targets. Simulation results that illustrate performance of the DOA estimators are given along with a simple tracking example.
The target tracking literature has traditionally been most interested in the "hit" model for the observations process, and the community has developed many techniques for data association. On the other hand,...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819450774
The target tracking literature has traditionally been most interested in the "hit" model for the observations process, and the community has developed many techniques for data association. On the other hand, matched field processing (MFP) research has focused on signalprocessing with the main emphasis on target detection and localization. Treatments of combined tracking/MFP systems are not common. but most concentrate on signalprocessing, with the idea that a "track" is really a sequence or track-segment of detections that make sense from dynamics considerations. Thus, here we explore the MFP tracking problem, with the key that we attempt to use traditional target-tracking algorithms. In particular. we use an IMMPDAF-AI (interacting multiple-model probabilistic data association filter with amplitude information). It is shown that the use of such an advanced tracking algorithm - plus a number of MFP-specific refinements - produces tracking performance that is far superior to that obtained for a more traditional tracking (a strongest-neighbor Kalman filter), with the added advantage of a significantly reduced numerical load as measured in terms of the number of MFP replicas to be computed.
The detection of dim targets in heavy clutter requires large gains in the SCR (signal-to-clutter ratio). Gains of the required magnitude have been obtained with space-temporal processing. However, in many cases these ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819428221
The detection of dim targets in heavy clutter requires large gains in the SCR (signal-to-clutter ratio). Gains of the required magnitude have been obtained with space-temporal processing. However, in many cases these gains are either difficult or expensive to realize. If the range to the clutter is small relative to the clutter velocity, the temporal processing will need to include scene registration and optical flow correction. Scene registration is computationally expensive especially for large search volumes. The correction of optical flow is both expensive and typically less than satisfactory. The spectral dimension provides an alternative to the temporal dimension. Since the data in each of the spectral bands is collected simultaneously or nearly so, the problems of registration and optical flow are eliminated. This paper considers the performance of the multi-spectral infrared bands. Dual band performance results comparing space spectral processing with space temporal will be shown. An analytic model of the probability of false alarm as a function of the number of spectral bands is presented. A comparison of this model to experimental results using multi-spectral IRST data is given.
Target selection is the task of assigning a value or priority to various targets in a scenario. This priority is usually determined by the threat the target poses on the defender in addition to its vulnerability to po...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819444782
Target selection is the task of assigning a value or priority to various targets in a scenario. This priority is usually determined by the threat the target poses on the defender in addition to its vulnerability to possible measures to be taken by the defender. In this study, we describe a target selection technique based on neural networks. The utility or value of each target is assumed to be an unknown function acting on certain features of the target such as size, intensity, speed and direction of movement. Neural networks used in the context of function estimation is a viable candidate for determining this unknown function for generating target priorities. Various. neural network configurations are examined and simulation results are presented.
We derive seven new particle flow algorithms for nonlinear filters based on the small curvature condition inspired by fluid dynamics. We find it extremely interesting that this physically motivated condition generaliz...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819490711
We derive seven new particle flow algorithms for nonlinear filters based on the small curvature condition inspired by fluid dynamics. We find it extremely interesting that this physically motivated condition generalizes two of our previous exact flow algorithms, namely incompressible flow and Gaussian flow. We derive a new algorithm to compute the inverse of the sum of two linear differential operators using a second homotopy, similar to Feynman's perturbation theory for quantum electrodynamics as well as Gromov's h-principle.
This paper addresses the multisensor tracking of targets but considers only the special case of targets on a ballistic trajectory. The scenario consists of two radars tracking the same target. One of these radars peri...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819419206
This paper addresses the multisensor tracking of targets but considers only the special case of targets on a ballistic trajectory. The scenario consists of two radars tracking the same target. One of these radars periodically sends a track to the other radar for fusion with the track generated by the recipient. A track fusion algorithm for tracking ballistic targets is derived. This algorithm is exercised and illustrated by the Sensor Fusion Architecture Model (SFAM) computer program. Since the repeated track fusion of ballistic trajectories results in correlation that must be removed to preserve the optimality in the resultant estimate, an algorithm that requires the preservation of the last update and the error covariance matrix from another Kalman Filter (KF) also is presented. These data then are used to decorrelate the two track inputs originating at the same-source KF.
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