Patent ID: 8369622

Claim:
A system for linking an object for situation awareness in a data fusion domain representing a space comprising a plurality of data sources, comprising: a) a feature signature library comprising at least one feature signature to convert pixels in a raw image into a feature scene in which each pixel is associated with said feature signature by a quantifiable measure from at least one data source by applying at least a first data analysis method thereto; b) a region of interest (ROI) spatial mask in which pixels in a raw image are represented by a feature signature library from at least one data source by applying at least a second data analysis method thereto; c) a rule set library comprising at least one rule to allow ROIs in a raw image to link each other, and among themselves using at least one ROI descriptor from at least one data source; d) at least two data sources fused by applying at least one data fusion analysis method; and e) means for generating and outputting an ROI tracking result from the fused data using at least one database format.