The surveillance area of a radar system is usually very huge and the observations are usually more than the real targets. Moreover, both non-maneuvering and maneuvering conditions are usually existed during the tracking process. The computation burden of a radar system is heavy to track multiple maneuvering targets in real time because of the complicated tracking environment. In order to reduce...

Studies on the efficacy of storm tracking algorithms have focused upon tracking the centroids of the radar features as identified by a separate identification algorithm. Therefore, the tracking skill becomes dependent upon the behavior of the identification algorithm. In addition, the tracking results are often compared against tracks that are determined by small quantities of subjective, human...

The National Weather Radar Testbed (NWRT) phased array radar will not be operated in fixed volume coverage patterns. Instead, the phased array radar will attempt to simultaneously maximize the utility of several possible uses, such as 3D storm analysis, area surveillance and aircraft tracking. In order to do so, the phased array radar will employ adaptive scanning and intersperse meteorological...

In indoor environments, the Global Positioning System (GPS) and long-range tracking radar systems are not optimal, because of signal propagation limitations in the indoor environment. In recent years, the use of ultra-wide band (UWB) technology has become a possible solution for object detection, localization and tracking in indoor environments, because of its high range resolution, compact siz...

Conventional usage of multiparameter radar measurements for rainfall estimation has been associated with tracking the variability of the raindrop size distribution. The use of multiparameter radar measurements in a statistical framework to estimate rainfall is presented in this paper. The techniques developed in this paper are applied to the radar and rain gauge measurement of rainfall observed...

Radar networks are proven to have numerous advantages over traditional monostatic and bistatic radar. With recent developments, radar networks have become an attractive platform due to their low probability of intercept (LPI) performance for target tracking. In this paper, a joint sensor selection and power allocation algorithm for multiple-target tracking in a radar network based on LPI is pro...

The NASA passive Final Approach Spacing Tool (FAST) provides advisory information to the terminal air traffic controller for sequencing and merging of landing aircraft. It consists of the Trajectory Synthesizer (TS) and the Scheduling Logic (SL). FAST has undergone extensive field testing and performance evaluations of the FAST TS algorithms have been conducted. However, no analytical performan...

The sequence counting the number of unique tournaments with n people is the same as the sequence counting non-tracking binary strings corresponding to n − 2 radar observations with the tracking rule “3 out of 5 with loss 2.” This fact allows us to build a bijection between unique tournaments and non-tracking binary strings.

To solve the problem of tracking maneuvering airborne targets in the presence of clutter, an improved interacting multiple model probability data association algorithm (IMMPDA-MDCM) using radar/IR sensors fusion is proposed. Under the architecture of the proposed algorithm, the radar/IR centralized fusion tracking scheme of IMMPDA-MDCM is designed to guarantee the observability of the target st...

A novel probabilistic perception algorithm is presented as a real-time joint solution to data association, object tracking, and object classification for an autonomous ground vehicle in all-weather conditions. The presented algorithm extends a Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter originally built with a particle filter for data association and a Kalman filter for multi-object tracking (Miller et a...