Using Dempster-Shafer Methods for Object Classification in the Theater Ballistic Missile Environment

Abstract

The Dempster-Shafer (D-S) Theory of Evidential Reasoning may be useful in handling issues associated with theater ballistic missile discrimination. This paper highlights the Dempster-Shafer theory and describes how this technique was implemented and applied to data collected by two infrared sensors on a recent flight test. Results from both classifier and feature level fusion applications are presented in this paper.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA392182

Entities

People

  • Debra Freel
  • Douglas Lampert
  • Kimberly Coombs
  • Steven Brahm

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Complexity
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Databases
  • Defense Systems
  • Detectors
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Machine Learning
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Inference

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ballistic Missile Meteorology
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.