A novel approach to high frequency radar ship tracking exploiting aspect diversity

Author

Braca, Paolo ; Vespe, Michele ; Maresca, Salvatore ; Horstmann, Jochen

Author_Institution

NATO Undersea Res. Centre (NURC), La Spezia, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

6895

Lastpage

6898

Abstract

Low-power High-Frequency Surface-Wave (HFSW) radars, designed for oceanic applications, are promising tools also for long-range surveillance in open-water Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) applications. This paper focuses on the fusion of multiple aspects over single-perspective systems. The single-sensor tracking steps, made up by the Joint Probabilistic Data Association (JPDA) rule and the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), are followed by a Track-to-Track association and Fusion (T2TF) strategy. Tracking performance improvements are investigated using real data collected by two simultaneously operated HFSW-radars.

Keywords

Kalman filters; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; HFSW radars; JPDA rule; Joint Probabilistic Data Association; MTT applications; aspect diversity; fusion strategy; high frequency radar ship tracking; low-power high-frequency surface-wave radars; oceanic applications; open-water MultiTarget Tracking applications; single-perspective systems; single-sensor tracking steps; track-to-track association strategy; unscented Kalman filter; Logic gates; Marine vehicles; Radar cross section; Radar tracking; Sea measurements; Target tracking; HFSW radar; JPDA; MTT; UKF; multi-sensor data fusion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352578

Filename

6352578