Solving the association problem for a multistatic range-only radar target tracker

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2254-2277

  Petsios, Michail N ^a   Alivizatos, Emmanouil G ^a   Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clutter; Data association; Global nearest neighbor; Interacting multiple models; Multiple target tracking; Multisensor tracking; Multistatic radar; Range only tracking; Track management; Unscented Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; KALMAN FILTERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRACKING RADAR;

GLOBAL NEAREST NEIGHBOR; INTERACTING MULTIPLE MODELS; MULTIPLE TARGET TRACKING; MULTISENSOR TRACKING; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTERS;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 44649186804     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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