Weather forecasting, Earth resource surveys that use remote sensing, vehicular traffic management, target classification and tracking, military and homeland defense, and battlefield assessment are some of the applications that will benefit from the discussions of signature-generation phenomena, sensor fusion architectures, and data fusion algorithms provided in this text.
Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Multiple Sensor System Applications, Benefits, and Design Considerations
- Data Fusion Algorithms and Architectures
- Classical Inference
- Bayesian Inference
- Dempster-Shafer Evidential Theory
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Voting Logic Fusion
- Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Neural Networks
- Passive Data Association Techniques for Unambiguous Location of Targets
- Retrospective Comments
- Appendix A: Planck Radiation Law and Radiative Transfer
- Appendix B: Voting Fusion with Nested Confidence Levels
- Index
