Fuzzy track-to-track association and track fusion approach in distributed multisensor-multitarget multiple-attribute environment

Signal Processing

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1474-1492

  Aziz, Ashraf M ^a  

^a Military Technical College   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Data association; Data fusion; Multisensor multitarget tracking; Track fusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DATA ASSOCIATION; DATA FUSION; MULTISENSOR-MULTITARGET TRACKING; TRACK FUSION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33847100565     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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