Measurement Correlation for Multiple Sensor Tracking in a Dense Target Environment.

Abstract

In this report, we describe an algorithm for correlating measurements from several sensors. This is problem area in multiple sensor tracking in a dense target environment. It is shown that the correlation problem is similar to the assignment problem in operation research with assignment penalties being equal to the sufficient statistic of the generalized likelihood ratio test. An example is given to illustrate the correlation performance for two optical sensors tracking ballistic trajectories. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 20, 1981
Accession Number
ADA098001

Entities

People

  • Chaw-bing Chang
  • Leonard C. Youens

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Banach Space
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Covariance
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Massachusetts
  • Measurement
  • Operations Research
  • Optical Detectors
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • Targets
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.