Contour tracking of contaminant clouds with sequential Monte Carlo methods

Author

Jaward, M.H. ; Bull, D. ; Canagarajah, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol

fYear

2008

fDate

March 31 2008-April 4 2008

Firstpage

1469

Lastpage

1472

Abstract

Contour tracking for a single source emission is addressed in this paper. This problem is solved by estimating the contour boundary positions using a set of particle filters. The use of Sequential Monte Carlo techniques enables the tracking to performed when the measurements are noisy and the tracking results also includes the estimation uncertainly. The proposed technique is illustrated for a SCIPUFF generated single emission scenario and simulation experiments showed the successful tracking throughout the tracking period.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; particle filtering (numerical methods); tracking filters; SCIPUFF; contaminant clouds; contour boundary positions; contour tracking; particle filters; sequential Monte Carlo methods; single source emission; Acoustic sensors; Clouds; Contamination; Monitoring; Monte Carlo methods; Particle filters; Pollution measurement; Sea measurements; Sensor systems and applications; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Distributed estimation; Tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2008. ICASSP 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1483-3

Electronic_ISBN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517898

Filename

4517898