Effect of common process noise on two-sensor track fusion

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 829-835

  Saha, R K ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a Nova Research Corporation   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^d SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^g GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; EFFECTS; KALMAN FILTERING; KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRACKING (POSITION); VECTORS;

CROSS CORRELATION MATRIX; CROSS COVARIANCE MATRIX; NEAREST NEIGHBOR CRITERION; TARGET TRACKING; TWO SENSOR TRACK FUSION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0030197011     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.21706     Document Type: Article

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