Enhanced Vehicle and Event Typing Software. Phase 1
Abstract
Analyticon's Phase I SBIR effort emphasizes real-time typing of strategic military booster threats (ICBMs and SLBMs) from satellite-based infrared sensor measurements of received radiant intensity from their boost phase rockets. It is crucial to BMC3 planning and commanding of assets for strategic missile defense via boost-phase target interception and for TMD, BMD ground resources (sensor, weaponry) utilization, and early warning (EW) of threats. Accordingly it necessitates properly understanding salient analytical foundations, automating candidate algorithm concepts, and resolving key algorithm-implementation issues. The upshot is an upgraded largely radiometric typing procedure couched entirely in sensor (i.e. focal plane) coordinates, that obviates reliance on formal launch point estimation information, readily uses target motion and all intensity measurements, and expediently combines/amplifies available multi-color data. Our baseline typer entails judicious variants, configured per selected performance criteria/payoffs and input data pre- conditioning, of a decision-making process commonly known as a Fisher technique of cluster analysis for ascertaining the best decision space (i.e. coordinates of a measurement hyperspace), that is combined with a general Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT) of hypotheses testing for the accompanying decision rule (i.e. classification strategy)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 03, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA284862
Entities
People
- John T. Wagner
- Z. E. Schwarzbein