Characterization of polar to Cartesian coordinates transfromation and its effect on target track quality

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6569, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gray, John E ^a   Alouani, Ali T ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinate transformations; Exact probability density functions; Target tracking

Indexed keywords

COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS; EXACT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS;

IMAGE QUALITY; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 36248958176     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.718467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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