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A Survey on Track Fusion for Radar Target Tracking  

Choi, Won-Yong (School of EECS, Kyungpook National University)
Hong, Sun-Mog (School of EECS, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Dong-Gwan (ADD)
Jung, Jae-Kyung (ADD)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology / v.11, no.1, 2008 , pp. 85-92 More about this Journal
Abstract
An architecture for multiple radar tracking systems can be broadly categorized according to the methods in which the tracking functions are performed : central-level tracking and distributed tracking. In the central-level tracking, target tracking is performed using observations from all radar systems. This architecture provides optimal solution to target tracking. In distributed tracking, tracking is performed at each radar system and the composite track information is formed through track fusion integrating multiple radar-level tracks. Track-to-track fusion and track-to-track association are required to perform in this architecture. In this paper, issues and recent research on the two tracking architectures are surveyed.
Keywords
Multiple Radars; Distributed Tracking Architecture; Track Fusion; Track Association;
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