The Visibility of Stationary and Moving Targets in the Plane Subject to a Poisson Field of Shadowing Elements.

Abstract

A methodology for an analytical derivation of visibility probabilities of n stationary target points in the plane is developed for the case when shadows are cast by a Poisson random field of obscuring elements. In addition formulate for the moments of a measure of the total proportional visibility along a star-shaped curve are given. The general methodology is illustrated by some examples of visibility along the circumference of half a circle, when the obscuring elements are centered within a concentric annular region. The distribution of the measure of proportional visibility is approximated by a mixed-beta distribution. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 15, 1984
Accession Number
ADA141305

Entities

People

  • M. Yadin
  • S. Zacks

Organizations

  • Binghamton University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Data Science
  • Diameters
  • Distribution Functions
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Moving Targets
  • New York
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Standards
  • Stationary
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Targets
  • Three Dimensional

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  • Mathematics

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