Contact-Level Multistatic Sonar Data Simulator for Tracker Performance Assessment

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of a multistatic sonar contact-data simulation approach and a dataset generated specifically for tracker algorithm evaluation by the Multistatic Tracking Working Group (MSTWG). A brief description of the simulation approach is given, which includes simple sonar equation modeling, resulting in sensor-to-sensor target fading effects, as well as contact localization modeling. We describe the methodology by which a single data set generated using this approach is suitable to evaluate multistatic tracker performance over a range of multisensor detection redundancy levels.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA454741

Entities

People

  • Doug Grimmett
  • Stefano Coraluppi

Organizations

  • Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Data Fusion
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • False Alarms
  • Measurement
  • Multistatic Detection
  • Multistatic Sonar
  • Multistatic Tracking
  • Radar
  • Reverberation
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Sonar
  • Target Detection
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.