Signal Processing for Radar Target Tracking and Identification

Abstract

The work reported here has yielded significant new results in airborne target identification. The framework of the approach consists of a joint target tracking and recognition scenario, and a general mathematical approach for addressing this and similar problems. By tracking the kinematics of target, it is shown how the software is better able to focus on which class of orientations and aspect angles to start the template matching for the identification phase. An S-band radar operating in a wideband mode along with an optical sensor constituted the two high resolution data resources. Simulations were also developed, including outputs from X-patch, for each of these sensors. Demonstrations of the software running are also presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA322184

Entities

People

  • Donald L. Snyder
  • Joseph A. O'sullivan
  • Michael I. Miller

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Information Science
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Multitarget Tracking
  • Parallel Computing
  • Random Variables
  • Signal Processing
  • Target Recognition
  • Target Tracking
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Robotics and Automation.