A Microservices based Surface Composite Tracker Component

Near-shore, littoral surface tracking is challenging due to the dynamic and inhomogeneous sea surface clutter as well as a diverse and dense target environment that leads to incomplete, non-contiguous, intermittent, and degraded tracking ability of any single sensor. Composite tracking provides a way to achieve a more continuous, complete, and unambiguous track picture utilizing data from multiple sensors. Lakota proposes to develop a composite tracker, the Adaptive Multi-frame Parameterized Tracker (AMPT), which is innovative in its ability to adapt to a wide range of ocean environments, target densities, and target types. ĀAs such, AMPT will improve Situation Awareness (SA) within the maritime littoral environment by generating a surface track picture that is more complete, continuous, unambiguous, accurate, and precise than its contributing sensors.Ā Additionally, through the use of a Microservice-Based Architecture, the resulting surface tracker has improved scalability, better fault isolation, and enhanced data security versus what would have been achievable if it had been developed using a monolithic development architecture as used in legacy combat system applications.