Multitarget Tracking in a Multisensor Multiplatform Environment

Due to the current advances in technology, it is both possible as well as feasible to track multiple targets in a network centric environment. To this end, the development and the design of a network centric environment must be based on solid understanding of the theoretical foundations and should yield required performance in a control simulation. The paper provides an overview of various issues involved in a network centric sensor data fusion environment. Besides discussing the conventional techniques to resolve the sensor integration, registration, association, and fusion issues, non-conventional approaches, such as Fuzzy Logic and Viterbi based methods are also be explored in this paper. In addition, the design of a versatile simulation environment based on a multi-tiered fusion architecture to evaluate the sensor integration techniques is presented.