The Expected Length of a Myopic Investigation.

Abstract

This thesis addresses the problem of estimating the distance which must be traveled to visit all the targets in a search area. The search area is assumed to be a compact area drawn from an infinite Poisson field. Targets are visited in 'nearest uninvestigated neighbor' order. A simplified analytical model is developed for the unbounded investigation. This model is used to provide heuristic justification for simulation results obtained for the bounded investigation. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA062166

Entities

People

  • Peter Carlton Olsen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Coast Guard
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • False Targets
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Schools
  • Search Theory
  • Simulations
  • Targets
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Geodesy
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.