Selected Tracking and Fusion Applications for the Defence and Security Domain
Abstract
Sensor Data Fusion is the process of combining incomplete and imperfect pieces of mutually complementary sensor information in such a way that a better understanding of an underlying real-world phenomenon is achieved. Typically, this insight is either unobtainable otherwise or a fusion result exceeds what can be produced from a single sensor output in accuracy, reliability, or cost. Appropriate collection, registration and alignment, stochastic filtering, logical analysis, space-time integration, exploitation of redundancies, quantitative evaluation, and appropriate display are part of Sensor Data Fusion as well as the integration of related context information. Sensor Data Fusion, as an information technology as well as a branch of engineering science and informatics, is discussed in an introductory part, put into a more general context, and related to information systems. Basic elements and concepts are introduced. Selected applications are discussed in the subsequent sections, where specific problems of Sensor Data Fusion are highlighted. The material discussed in the individual sections is collected from journal publications by the author.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA586504
Entities
People
- Wolfgang Koch
Organizations
- Fraunhofer Society