Tracking in clutter with strongest neighbor measurements - Part I: Theoretical analysis

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1560-1578

  Li, X Rong ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Kalman filtering; Radar tracking; Sonar tracking; State estimation; Target tracking; Tracking filters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR TRACKING; SONAR; STATE ESTIMATION;

SONAR TRACKING; STRONGEST NEIGHBOR MEASUREMENTS; TRACKING FILTERS;

KALMAN FILTERING;

EID: 0032205832     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.728872     Document Type: Article

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