Context-based multi-level information fusion for harbor surveillance

Information Fusion

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 173-186

  Gómez Romero, Juan ^a   Serrano, Miguel A ^a   García, Jesús ^a   Molina, José M ^a   Rogova, Galina ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Encompass Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief argumentation system; Context; Higher level fusion; Maritime surveillance; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FUSION; ONTOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ARGUMENTATION SYSTEMS; CONTEXT; DATA AND INFORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; HIGHER-LEVEL FUSION; MARITIME SURVEILLANCE; ONTOLOGICAL MODELING; SITUATION AND THREAT ASSESSMENT;

MONITORING;

EID: 84904793304     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2014.01.011     Document Type: Article

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