The challenge of scalable and distributed fusion of disparate sources of information

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6242, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Julier, Simon J ^a   Uhlmann, Jeffrey K ^b   Walters, Joshua ^a   Mittu, Ranjeev ^a   Palaniappan, Kannappan ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated data; Disparate data fusion; Distributed data fusion; Generalized Covariance intersection; MANET; Maritime domain awareness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

DATA CORRELATION; DISPARATE DATA FUSION; DISTRIBUTED DATA FUSION; GENERALIZED COVARIANCE INTERSECTION; MANET; MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747370715     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.666395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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