Distributed Sensor Networks

Abstract

The Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) program is aimed at developing and extending target surveillance and tracking technology in systems that employ multiple spatially distributed sensors and processing resources. Such a system would be comprised of sensors, data bases, and processors distributed throughout an area and interconnected by an appropriate digital-data communication system. Surveillance and tracking of low-flying aircraft have been selected to develop and evaluate DSN concepts in the light of a specific system problem. A DSN test bed that will make use of multiple small acoustic arrays as sensors for low- flying aircraft surveillance is being developed and will be used to test and demonstrate DSN techniques and technology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1982
Accession Number
ADA118868

Entities

People

  • Richard T. Lacoss

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Networks
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Digital Communications
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Radar
  • Radio Communications
  • Sensor Networks
  • Signal Processing
  • Target Tracking
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.