Multitarget multisensor closed-loop tracking

John N. Sanders-Reed

doi:10.1117/12.542932

27 July 2004 Multitarget multisensor closed-loop tracking

John N. Sanders-Reed

Proceedings Volume 5430, Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing XVIII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.542932
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a closed-loop tracking system using multiple co-located sensors to develop multi-sensor track histories on multiple targets. The use of multiple, co-aligned sensors to track multiple, possibly maneuvering targets, presents a number of tracker design challenges and opportunities. Many of these problems have been addressed individually in the published literature from a theoretical point of view. However, no one has yet addressed the design and implementation of a specific tracker to meet all of these requirements at once. Specific questions addressed in this paper include how to assign N detections in a current frame to M active tracks, how to initiate new tracks and terminate dead tracks, how to combine information from multiple sensors into a single integrated picture, represented by a global track file, and how to perform these functions in a timely manner to support a precision closed loop tracking system.

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John N. Sanders-Reed "Multitarget multisensor closed-loop tracking", Proc. SPIE 5430, Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing XVIII, (27 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.542932

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