Advances and Challenges in Multisensor Data and Information Processing - Volume 8 NATO Security through Science Series: Information and Communication Security ... D: Sinformation and Communication Security)

✍ Scribed by Eric Lefebvre

• Publisher: IOS Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 412
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Information fusion resulting from multi-source processing, often called multisensor data fusion when sensors are the main sources of information, is a relatively young (less than 20 years) technology domain. It provides techniques and methods for: Integrating data from multiple sources and using the complementarity of this data to derive maximum information about the phenomenon being observed; Analyzing and deriving the meaning of these observations; Selecting the best course of action; and Controlling the actions. Various sensors have been designed to detect some specific phenomena, but not others. Data fusion applications can combine synergically information from many sensors, including data provided by satellites and contextual and encyclopedic knowledge, to provide enhanced ability to detect and recognize anomalies in the environment, compared with conventional means. Data fusion is an integral part of multisensor processing, but it can also be applied to fuse non-sensor information (geopolitical, intelligence, etc.) to provide decision support for a timely and effective situation and threat assessment. One special field of application for data fusion is satellite imagery, which can provide extensive information over a wide area of the electromagnetic spectrum using several types of sensors (Visible, Infra-Red (IR), Thermal IR, Radar, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR), Hyperspectral...). Satellite imagery provides the coverage rate needed to identify and monitor human activities from agricultural practices (land use, crop types identification...) to defense-related surveillance (land/sea target detection and classification). By acquiring remotely sensed imagery over earth regions that land sensors cannot access, valuable information can be gathered for the defense against terrorism. This book deals with the following research areas: Target recognition/classification and tracking; Sensor systems; Image processing; Remote sensing and remoteIOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

✦ Table of Contents

Title page......Page 1
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Sensor Data Fusion: Methods, Applications, Examples......Page 11
Simulation of Distributed Sensor Networks......Page 34
Joint Target Tracking and Classification via Sequential Monte Carlo Filtering......Page 43
A Survey on Assignment Techniques......Page 51
Non-Linear Techniques in Target Tracking......Page 58
Underwater Threat Source Localization: Processing Sensor Network TDOAs with a Terascale Optical Core Device......Page 66
On Quality of Information in Multi-Source Fusion Environments......Page 79
Polarimetric Features and Contextual Information Fusion for Automatic Target Detection and Recognition......Page 88
Enhancing Efficiency of Dynamic Threat Analysis for Combating and Competing Systems......Page 95
Evidence Theory for Robust Ship Identification in Airborne Maritime Surveillance Missions......Page 102
Improved Threat Evaluation Using Time of Earliest Weapon Release......Page 109
Detection of Structural Changes in a Multivariate Data Using Change-Point Models......Page 116
Unification of Fusion Theories (UFT)......Page 124
Belief Functions Theory for Multisensor Data Fusion......Page 135
Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory Through the Years: Limitations, Practical Examples, Variants Under Conflict and a New Adaptive Combination Rule......Page 158
Decision Support and Information Fusion in the Context of Command and Control......Page 167
Fusion in European SMART Project on Space and Airborne Mined Area Reduction......Page 174
The DSmT Approach for Information Fusion and Some Open Problems......Page 181
Multitarget Tracking Applications of Dezert-Smarandache Theory......Page 189
Image Registration: A Tutorial......Page 197
Automated Registration for Fusion of Multiple Image Frames to Assist Improved Surveillance and Threat Assessment......Page 221
Data Fusion and Image Processing: A Few Application Examples......Page 231
Secondary Application Wireless Technologies to Increase Information Potential for Defence Against Terrorism......Page 246
Adaptive Image Fusion Using Wavelets: Algorithms and System Design......Page 253
Methods for Fused Image Analysis and Assessment......Page 262
Object Tracking by Particle Filtering Techniques in Video Sequences......Page 270
Wavelets, Segmentation, Pixel- and Region- Based Image Fusion......Page 279
Data Fusion and Quality Assessment of Fusion Products: Methods and Examples......Page 287
Information Management Methods in Sensor Networks......Page 317
A Novel Method for Correction of Distortions and Improvement of Information Content in Satellite-Acquired Multispectral Images......Page 325
Multisensor Data Fusion in the Processes of Weighing and Classification of the Moving Vehicles......Page 334
Sensor Performance Estimation for Multi-Camera Ambient Security Systems: A Review......Page 341
Principles and Methods of Situation Assessment......Page 349
Higher Level Fusion for Catastrophic Events......Page 361
Ontology-Driven Knowledge Integration from Heterogeneous Sources for Operational Decision Making Support......Page 369
Evaluation of Information Fusion Techniques Part 1 - System Level Assessment......Page 376
Evaluation of Information Fusion Techniques Part 2 - Metrics......Page 385
Rapid and Reliable Content Based Image Retrieval......Page 394
Subject Index......Page 407
Author Index......Page 411