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Accession Number:
ADA399820
Title:
COTS Fusion Tracker Evaluation
Descriptive Note:
Project rept.
Corporate Author:
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB
Report Date:
2002-02-15
Pagination or Media Count:
137.0
Abstract:
Lincoln Laboratory was tasked by the FAA to measure the performance of a representative sample of current commercial off-the-shelf COTS fusion trackers. This effort included cataloging the companies that have available ATC fusion trackers, acquiring executable tracker images from as many as possible of these trackers, running the commercial tracker code on the test sets, and evaluating the performance achieved. This report presents an overall review of the state-of-the-art of fusion trackers as applied to the FAA surveillance problem. Average statistics of performance, as well as performance in special situations, are included. In each case, the performance of fusion is compared against the performance of single sensor and mosaiced tracking. Thus, the advantages and disadvantages of fusion will be evident. The statistics may also permit the generation of a fusion tracker specification should the FAA decide to procure one as part of a future automation system.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
