Fusion of imaging and non-imaging data for surveillance aircraft

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3067, Issue , 1997, Pages 179-189

  Shahbazian, Elisa ^a   Gagnon, Langis ^a   Duquet, Jean Rémi ^a   Macieszczak, Maciej ^a   Valin, Pierre ^a  

^a Lockheed Martin Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic target recognition; Data fusion; Image analysis; Intelligent decision aids; Real time adaptive planning; Resource management; Situation and threat assessment

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; APPLICATIONS; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; DATA FUSION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FUSION; INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; MILITARY ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; RADAR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSORS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS; TEST FACILITIES;

DATA LINK SYSTEM; FORWARD LOOKING; FUSION SYSTEMS; FUSION TECHNOLOGIES; INTEGRATION APPROACH; INTELLIGENT DECISION AIDS; LOCKHEED-MARTIN (CO); REAL-TIME ADAPTIVE PLANNING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SENSOR-SUITE; SITUATION AND THREAT ASSESSMENT; SURVEILLANCE AIRCRAFT; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TEST BEDS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0000943197     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.276117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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