Spatio-temporal multi-mode information management for moving target detection

This paper deals with the resource management for the detection of a moving target. Based on a generalized linear formalism, an algebraic framework for spatio-temporal optimization of the search efforts is developed, which allows management of multi-modes resources under various rules: modalization, conditionality, parallelizing. This formalism is an extension of Koopman/Brown search model and requires a continuous or pseudo-continuous hypothesis about the detection resources. This formalism is sufficiently general to provide a convenient framework for a wide variety of sensor management problems, even if practical applications require additional work for rendering more precise the particular modelling of detection resource. 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.