Design and Analysis of Modern Tracking Systems (Artech House Radar Library) [Hardcover]

Samuel S. Blackman (Author), Robert Popoli (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1580530060 | ISBN-13: 978-1580530064 | Publication Date: August 1999

An overview of the state in design and implementation of advanced tracking for single and multiple sensor systems. The text provides evaluations of sensor management, kinematic and attribute data processing, data association, situation assessment, and modern tracking and data fusion methods as applied in both military and non-military arenas. The book offers full coverage of tracking topics such as passive ranging and interactive multiple model (IMM) filtering; multiple hypothesis tracking (MHT) data association; Bayesian and Dempster-Shafer attribute fusion; multiple sensor tracking methods for distributed systems such as space-based surveillance systems; use of tracking data for situation assessment and sensor management; track fusion and track-before-detect (TBD) methods; and efficient allocation of agile beam radar resources. It also covers the interpretation and optimisation of tracker data, and solves the problems associated with algorithm choice and design.

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About the Author

Samuel S. Blackman has over 35 years experience working in tracking system design. Robert F. Popoli is a teacher and has fifteen years industry experience.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1230 pages
• Publisher: Artech House Publishers (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580530060
• ISBN-13: 978-1580530064
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive tracking reference, September 23, 2001

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Henrik I. Christensen (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Design and Analysis of Modern Tracking Systems (Artech House Radar Library) (Hardcover)

This book covers all the basic methods in tracking and data association as traditionally used in applications such as radar, robotics, image processing, signal analysis, ... The book provides a very solid introduction to the different topics of sensor analysis, characterisation of uncertainty, methods for single and multi target tracking, etc. The topic of sensory fusion is also well covered in terms of different approaches to integration (MAP; Evidential Reasoning, Bayes,...).

The book also covers more advanced topics of tracking systems such as situation assessment and sensor management. Here the authors have, unfortunately, decided to largely adopt a fuzzy logic approach and a POOR theoretical grounding of the work. These sections can be ignored.

Despite the poor sections on high level aspects the rest of the book is excellent and a solid reference for any one working on tracking systems. It might is a solid reference, but it is much too expensive (and to comprehensive) to be used for teaching.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, July 14, 2006

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Glenn Buchan (Redondo Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Design and Analysis of Modern Tracking Systems (Artech House Radar Library) (Hardcover)

This book proved to be a great disappointment. I am reasonably knowledgeable about sensors and tracking, but I needed to "take my game to the next level" for some work I was doing. I thought this book might be the vehicle to help me. It wasn't. It is at once overwhelming and underwhelming. It is basically a massive literature survey. Granted, that can be of value -- indeed, merely assembling such a massive tome is a truly prodigious feat. Still,it totally missed the mark as far as I am concerned. What I needed was an in-depth treatment of the fundamentals of multiple target tracking that would provide me with sufficient basic understanding to allow me to solve some difficult, but straightforward generic tracking problems.This book isn't it. Instead, the book was more like a huge cookbook that contained many recipes, but didn't help me learn to cook. The Table of Contents was actually a dead giveaway. It is 18 pages long, and many individual sections covering very complex topics are remarkably short -- 1-2 pages. That should have warned me that I wasn't going to find what I was looking for here. The book is also hard to read. Because it covers such a potpourri of topics, the notation is inconsistent, the acronyms are even more annoying than usual, and equations are plucked out of the references without sufficient context to make them "user friendly." As a result, using the book is exceptionally frustrating, and its sheer size makes the effort daunting. This is the probably the longest and certainly the most expensive technical book I have ever purchased. It wasn't worth it to me, and I would urge others to think twice.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Complete Book of Tracking, June 21, 2002

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Mark (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Design and Analysis of Modern Tracking Systems (Artech House Radar Library) (Hardcover)

A complete survey of modern tracking methods. Basic tracking fundamentals as well as advanced tracking concepts are explained with simple examples that are easy to follow and understand. In many instances I have gone to this book to understand things that were incomprehensible in journal articles. The book covers the basics of sensors, target dynamics, Kalman filtering, multiple hypothesis tracking, data fusion, reasoning schemes, sensor resource management, and more. My favorite chapter is the last: Detection and Tracking of Dim Targets in Clutter. If you are involved with tracking this book will be a valuable companion.