Sensitivity Testing on a Theater-Based Automatic Data Fusion Algorithm
Abstract
This report documents the test methodology and the results and analysis of specific tests for a developing U.S.Navy Correlator Tracker. In the Navy context, the correlator tracker provides locational and operational information of ships, submarines, aircraft and land-based forces, both friendly, neutral, commercial and of upmost important non-friendly targets or threats. The algorithm in question operates within a system known as the OSIS Baseline Upgrade (OBU) where OSIS stands for Ocean Surveillance Intelligence System. Due to the high volume of data, upwards of 5,000 reports an hour with up to 20,000 extant tracks, a large amount of data fusion is required to be done automatically with operator intervention to resolve ambiguities and computer error. Since it was determined that the algorithm, otherwise known as the Automatic Correlator Tracker (ACT) was intractable from the system in which it operates, test data had to be transported and run on the system at its development facility. This arrangement put time and data constraints on the analysis and therefore a tightly bound set of sensitivity tests had to be created specifically for the application.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 28, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA227574
Entities
People
- J. B. Hofmann
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory