Systems Engineering Approach for Implementing Data Fusion Systems

Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion: Theory and Practice: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 561-596

  Bowman, Christopher L ^a   Steinberg, Alan N ^b  

^a Data Fusion and Neural Networks ^*  (United States)

^b Data Fusion and Neural Networks   (United States)

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EID: 85152805250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420053098-27     Document Type: Chapter

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