COTS Fusion Tracker Evaluation

Details

• Creators:
  Gertz, J. L. ; Kaminsky, A. D.
• Corporate Creators:
  Lincoln Laboratory ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Systems Research and Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Automatic tracking
  • Simulation
  • State of the art
  • Surveillance
  • Tracking systems
  • Aircraft tracking
  • Automatic tracking
  • COTS fusion tracker
  • COTS(Commercial-off-the-shelf)
  • Performance evaluation
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  ATC-302
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Massachusetts
• Corporate Publisher:
  Lincoln Laboratory ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Description:
  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.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/40695/dot_40695_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.13 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9607da2fe696cce4784ebd2add9ff705a4a6767e6056a9fa7bce823e8813e8bd