Loral Canada completed (May 1995) a Department of National Defense (DND) Chief of Research and Development (CRAD) contract, to study the feasibility of implementing a multi- sensor data fusion (MSDF) system onboard th...
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(纸本)0819419206
Loral Canada completed (May 1995) a Department of National Defense (DND) Chief of Research and Development (CRAD) contract, to study the feasibility of implementing a multi- sensor data fusion (MSDF) system onboard the CP-140 Aurora aircraft. This system is expected to fuse data from: (a) attributed measurement oriented sensors (ESM, IFF, etc.); (b) imaging sensors (FLIR, SAR, etc.); (c) tracking sensors (radar, acoustics, etc.); (d) data from remote platforms (data links); and (e) non-sensor data (intelligence reports, environmental data, visual sightings, encyclopedic data, etc.). Based on purely theoretical considerations a central-level fusion architecture will lead to a higher performance fusion system. However, there are a number of systems and fusion architecture issues involving fusion of such dissimilar data: (1) the currently existing sensors are not designed to provide the type of data required by a fusion system; (2) the different types (attribute, imaging, tracking, etc.) of data may require different degree of processing, before they can be used within a fusion system efficiently; (3) the data quality from different sensors, and more importantly from remote platforms via the data links must be taken into account before fusing; and (4) the non-sensor data may impose specific requirements on the fusion architecture (e.g. variable weight/priority for the data from different sensors). This paper presents the analyses performed for the selection of the fusion architecture for the enhanced sensor suite planned for the CP-140 aircraft in the context of the mission requirements and environmental conditions.
Certain radar applications must cope with rather extreme operational conditions (densely cluttered environment/relatively small detection probabilities). Tracking in such situations calls for refined data association ...
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Certain radar applications must cope with rather extreme operational conditions (densely cluttered environment/relatively small detection probabilities). Tracking in such situations calls for refined data association and processing techniques. By simulation results we demonstrate the applicability of Bayesian multiple hypothesis tracking (MRT) to well-separated targets detected with a mechanically rotating radar. Special emphasis is placed on air situations characterized by massively occurring data association conflicts.
This paper analyzes a new method to detect targets. The new method, called `super noncoherent integration' (SNCI), can improve overall detection performance by typically 5 dB to 10 dB relative to conventional nonc...
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(纸本)0819415391
This paper analyzes a new method to detect targets. The new method, called `super noncoherent integration' (SNCI), can improve overall detection performance by typically 5 dB to 10 dB relative to conventional noncoherent integration. A simple back-of-the-envelope formula is derived which quantifies the performance improvement of SNCI. Conventional noncoherent integration (CNCI) uses only amplitude measurements to distinguish targets from noise or clutter. In contrast, SNCI uses amplitude data in addition to: monopulse data, quadrature monopulse data, range and Doppler data over a sequence of N transmitted radar waveforms.
Classically, sensor signalprocessing and dataprocessing (i.e., tracking) have been performed separately with very little interaction between the two functions. Furthermore, the signalprocessing and tracking algorit...
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(纸本)0819415391
Classically, sensor signalprocessing and dataprocessing (i.e., tracking) have been performed separately with very little interaction between the two functions. Furthermore, the signalprocessing and tracking algorithms are often designed separately. This paper discusses some concepts for integrating the signalprocessing and tracking functions for a phase array radar. Since phased array radars provide a rapid beam steering capability, proper control of the radar beam has the potential for significantly improving the tracking of multiple maneuvering targets. However, when the signalprocessing is accomplished separately from the tracking, optimizing the detection thresholds for targets with fluctuating radar cross sections, resolving multiple targets, and reducing the errors due to multipath and glint must be accomplished over a single radar dwell period. Integrating the signalprocessing with the tracking will allow many of these issues to be addressed over multiple radar dwells. The issues associated with integrating the signalprocessing and tracking functions are discussed with respect to tracking and data association, revisit time and waveform energy calculations, and waveform selection. The waveform selection is discussed relative to four specific examples that include a fluctuating radar cross section from an extended target, two closely spaced targets, a splitting target, and a target in the presence of radar multipath.
A framework of multiresolutional target tracking is established in this paper. The wavelet transform is employed in constructing multiresolutional data and model structures. Multiresolutional tracking is performed ove...
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(纸本)0819415391
A framework of multiresolutional target tracking is established in this paper. The wavelet transform is employed in constructing multiresolutional data and model structures. Multiresolutional tracking is performed over the multiresolutional data and model structures in a top-down fashion. The main advantages of multiresolutional target tracking include: computational efficiency, performance robustness and algorithm flexibility.
The technique of detecting and tracking of a moving point target is space-based background with low SNR is analyzed in this paper. An efficient method for detecting low speed targets is presented. The method simply us...
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(纸本)0819415391
The technique of detecting and tracking of a moving point target is space-based background with low SNR is analyzed in this paper. An efficient method for detecting low speed targets is presented. The method simply uses multi-frame accumulating as the main operation in improving the output SNR. And it introduces candidate target records for target matching and recognition. The method is easy for hardware implementation that meets the demands of real time processing and low power consumption.
Analytic expressions are derived based on tracker characteristics that determine the maximum scan frame time required to track a maneuvering target. The tracker characteristics chosen are: filter gain, measurement cor...
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(纸本)0819415391
Analytic expressions are derived based on tracker characteristics that determine the maximum scan frame time required to track a maneuvering target. The tracker characteristics chosen are: filter gain, measurement correlation gate size, target acceleration and measurement error variance.
This paper examines a special class of signalprocessing technique called Minimum Variance Deconvolution (MVD) method and compares it with the commonly used Matched filtering and Wiener filtering based deconvolution p...
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(纸本)0819415391
This paper examines a special class of signalprocessing technique called Minimum Variance Deconvolution (MVD) method and compares it with the commonly used Matched filtering and Wiener filtering based deconvolution processing in point source acquisition signalprocessing applications for Electro-Optical sensors. A step by step development of the batch and recursive MVD algorithm including comparison with the competing methods are presented in this paper.
If members of a suite of sensors from which fusion is to be carried out are not co-located, it is unreasonable to assume that they share a common resolution cell grid; this is generally ignored in the data fusion comm...
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(纸本)0819415391
If members of a suite of sensors from which fusion is to be carried out are not co-located, it is unreasonable to assume that they share a common resolution cell grid; this is generally ignored in the data fusion community. In this paper we explore the effects of such `noncoincidence', and we find that what at first seems to be a problem can in fact be exploited. The idea is that a target is known to be confined to an intersection of overlapping resolution cells, and this overlap is generally small.
Within an Air Traffic Control (ATC) context many applications exist for off-line trajectory reconstruction such as evaluation of tracking or navigation systems and accident/incident investigations. Since the introduct...
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(纸本)0819415391
Within an Air Traffic Control (ATC) context many applications exist for off-line trajectory reconstruction such as evaluation of tracking or navigation systems and accident/incident investigations. Since the introduction of Jump-Linear models and associated filtering techniques enabled significant improvements in tracking smalltargets with useful applications to ATC one may expect that parallel developments in smoothing for Jump Linear systems enable similarly useful applications to aircraft trajectory reconstruction. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the validity of this expectation.
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