Intra-Ping Timing Issues in Multistatic Sonar Tracking
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In this paper, we examine a retrodiction approach to handle the out-of-sequence measurement (OOSM) problem in active sonar, for both linear and nonlinear representations of target contact information. We find that the retrodiction approach performs well, even with multiple sensors and multi-lag out-of-sequence measurements. In addition, we examine the impact of the use of a ping-time reference for moving-platform sonar operations.
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