Tracking a ballistic target: Comparison of several nonlinear filters

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 854-867

  Farina, A ^a   Ristic, B ^b   Benvenuti, D ^a  

^a ALENIA SPAZIO   (Italy)

^b Surveillance Systems Division   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR FILTERING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BALLISTIC TARGET; CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUNDS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER; PARTICLE FILTERING; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER;

RADAR TRACKING;

EID: 0036662693     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2002.1039404     Document Type: Article

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