Report-to-Track Data Fusion

Multisensor data fusion is a critical technology for many Navy missions and platforms. Platforms such as the E-2C, JSF and others require highly reliable tracking and classification of air platforms and ground targets within a tactical region. One critical design decision is the use of report-to-track vs. track-to-track fusion algorithms. In order to evaluate and compare these types of algorithm for varying sensor combinations, a simulation testbed that can readily adapt to different sensor, single-sensor tracker, and sensor fusion models is required. This simulation testbed will be built, using an existing tool, Simulation Framework, and adapting existing models of airborne radar, single-sensor trackers, and sensor-fusion algorithms. This testbed provides the user with a system that is: open architecture, object-oriented, message-based, distributed, reconfigurable, repeatable and expandable.