Structured pedigree information for distributed fusion systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6968, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Arambel, Pablo O ^a  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistent estimation; Data fusion; Distributed estimation; Filtering; Kalman filter; Partially known correlation; Pedigree information; Split covariance intersection; Unknown correlation

Indexed keywords

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; COVARIANCE INTERSECTION (CI); CRITICAL CHALLENGES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DATA INCEST; DISTRIBUTED DATA; DISTRIBUTED FUSION; ERROR COVARIANCES; INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PEDIGREE INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; RAW MEASUREMENTS; RUMOR PROPAGATION; SENSOR FUSION (SF); TARGET RECOGNITION; UNCORRELATED;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CORRELATION METHODS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; CRACK PROPAGATION; DATA FUSION; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; FUSION REACTIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEAD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEASUREMENTS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SULFATE MINERALS; TECHNOLOGY;

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EID: 44949108335     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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