Automatic Detection and Tracking for the San Francisco Vessel Traffic System.

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Abstract:

The San Francisco Vessel Traffic System VTS was conceived as an automated complex that would free the system operators of all routine tasks, permitting them to concentrate on situations requiring human intervention. Accordingly, a radar detection system has been designed to automatically acquire and track all vessels within a defined surveillance region covering the San Francisco Bay and seaward approach to the Golden Gate. The report describes the two major elements comprising the automatic detection and tracking system a Radar Video Preprocessor RVP and a radar computer. Modified author abstract

Author(s):
Macarthur, J. L. ; Davis, J. M. ; Oden, S. F.
Author Organization(s):
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV SILVER SPRING MD APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept. Mar 71-Jul 73,
Pagination:
0058

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
APL-MSC-73-351, USCG-D-67-74
Contract/Grant Number(s):
DOT-CG-03301-B
Monitor Series:
D-67-74
 Subject Terms
Communities of Interest:
Ground and Sea Platforms
Descriptor(s):
*Water traffic, *Radar tracking, Harbors, Shipping, Surveillance, Tracking, Automatic, Detection, Computers, Data processing, Signal processing, Video signals
Field(s)/Group(s):
Active and Passive Radar Detection and Equipment
Keyword(s):
*Vessel traffic systems
Report Date:
1973 Nov 01