Data Association in an Ocean Environment

Abstract

A multisensor data association technique was developed utilizing an expected likelihood approach to link time discontinuous tracks or those simultaneously held by multiple sensors. Nonlinear propagation loss/detection performance, prior target speed/heading distributions, gaussian measurement errors and frequency spectrum comparison are included in the resulting algorithm. Single/multiple lookback techniques are used for link decisions. The technique is considered practical for the low data rates typical of ASW.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 14, 1981
Accession Number
ADA108594

Entities

People

  • Robert D. Berlin
  • Vincent T. Gabriel
  • Yaakov Bar-Shalom

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Science
  • Convergence Zones (Sonar)
  • Data Association
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Doppler Effect
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Normal Distribution
  • Ocean Environments
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Statistics
  • Target Tracking
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.