Performance-Driven Resource Management in Layered Sensing

Abstract

Layered sensing provides a hierarchical netcentric architecture for universal situational awareness with global coverage and persistent surveillance. Sensors in the layered hierarchy provide spatial, temporal, spectral, and polarization diversity with different scales and resolutions over different time horizons. Cooperative management of netted sensors is a successful strategy to achieve targeting performance and overall measures of merit (MOM) goals. After a brief introduction to issues in layered sensors, a resource management strategy based on geometry information is described so as to enhance performance in target detection (minimum detectable Doppler) and tracking accuracy (geometric dilution of precision). Preliminary simulation results are presented to illustrate this Geometric Approach to Layered Sensing (GALS) concept.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA533015

Entities

People

  • Chun Yang
  • Erik Blasch
  • Ivan Kadar

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Geometry
  • Layered Sensing
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Passive Sensors
  • Precision
  • Range Finding
  • Resource Management
  • Sensor Networks
  • Target Detection
  • Target Tracking
  • Targeting
  • Targets
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.