Midcourse multitarget tracking using continuous representation

Michail Zak; Nikzad Toomarian

doi:10.1117/12.45675

1 August 1991 Midcourse multitarget tracking using continuous representation

Michail Zak, Nikzad Toomarian

Proceedings Volume 1481, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1991; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45675
Event: Orlando '91, 1991, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The thrust of this paper is to present a new approach to multi-target tracking for the mid-course stage of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). This approach is based upon a continuum representation of a cluster of flying objects. We assume that the velocities of the flying objects can be embedded into a smooth velocity field. This assumption is based upon the impossibility of encounters in a high density cluster between the flying objects. Therefore, the problem is reduced to an identification of a moving continuum based upon consecutive time frame observations. In contradistinction to the previous approaches, here each target is considered as a center of a small continuous neighborhood subjected to a local-affine transformation, and therefore, the target trajectories do not mix. Obviously, their mixture in plane of sensor view is apparent. The approach is illustrated by an example.

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Michail Zak and Nikzad Toomarian "Midcourse multitarget tracking using continuous representation", Proc. SPIE 1481, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1991, (1 August 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45675

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