Sensor management in ISR
By: Kenneth J. Hintz
Series: Artech House intelligence and information operations series; Artech House intelligence and information operations series
Publisher: Artech House
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Norwood, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781630816865; 9781630816858
Subjects: Intelligent sensors; Intelligence service; Capteurs intelligents; Service des renseignements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Sensor Management in ISR; title: Contents; title: Preface; title: 1 Introduction to Sensor Management; title: 1.1 Motivation for Sensor Management in Intelligence, Surveillence, and Reconaissance; title: 1.2 Sensor Management Versus Data Fusion; title: 1.3 Sensor Management Is Motivated by the Need to Inform Situation Assessment; title: 1.4 Sensor Management; title: 1.5 Sensor Scheduling, Sensor Management, and Mission Management; title: 1.6 Optimum Planning Versus Optimum Scheduling; title: 1.7 Sensor Suite Viewed as a Constrained Communications Channel; title: 1.8 Preliminaries; title: 1.9 Road Map for the Sequel; title: References; title: 2 Historical Basis for Sensor Management; title: 2.1 From Task-Specific Sensor to Heterogeneous Network; title: 2.2 Integration of Frequency Diverse Radars; title: 2.3 Integration of Modality Diverse Sensors During the Vietnam Era; title: 2.4 Networks of Homogeneous Sensors; title: 2.5 Network of Heterogeneous Sensors; title: 2.6 Network-Centric Warfare: The Start of Modern Sensor Management; title: References; title: 3 Sensor Management Inherent Problems; title: 3.1 Indirect Sensor Management Issues; title: 3.2 Multidisciplinary Problem; title: 3.3 Passive Sensor Issues; title: 3.4 Active Sensor Issues; title: 3.5 Virtual Sensor, Heterogeneous Sensor, and Pseudo-Sensor Issues; title: 3.6 World Models; title: 3.6.1 Physical Models; title: 3.6.2 Context; title: 3.6.3 Probabilistic Models; title: 3.6.4 Social Network Models; title: 3.7 Operational Issues; title: 3.7.1 Myopic Scheduling; title: 3.7.2 Sensor Management Objective Functions; title: References; title: 4 Sensor Management Related Problems; title: 4.1 Introduction; title: 4.2 Fusion-Related Issues; title: 4.2.1 Common Frame of Reference and Merging of Data from Different Platforms; title: 4.2.2 Data Association Coordinate System Errors; title: 4.2.3 Data Pedigree; title: 4.2.4 Data Veracity; title: 4.2.5 Hard and Soft Data Fusion; title: 4.3 Alternative Configurations for Search, Track, and Identification; title: 4.4 Detection Criteria; title: 4.5 Target Models; title: 4.6 Scheduling Constraints; title: 4.6.1 Deleterious Interaction of Sensors; title: 4.6.2 Computational Constraints; title: 4.6.3 Randomly Occurring Sensor Failures; title: References; title: 5 Theoretical Approaches to Sensor Management; title: 5.1 Overview of Sensor Management Theories; title: 5.2 Scheduling Approaches Versus Decision-Making Approaches; title: 5.3 Decision Theoretic Approaches; title: 5.4 Normative Decision Theoretic Approaches; title: 5.5 Descriptive Decision Theoretic Approaches; title: 5.6 Sensor Management Architecture-Based Approaches; title: 5.6.1 Decentralized Management; title: 5.6.2 Game Theory-Based Approaches; title: 5.6.3 Market Theory-Based Approaches; title: 5.6.4 Hybrid Approaches; title: References; title: 6 Artificial Intelligence for Sensor Management; title: 6.1 Introduction; title: 6.2 Resurgence of AI; title: 6.3 Specific Mapping of AI Capabilities to IBSM Functions; title: 6.4 Supervised Machine Learning; title: 6.5 Unsupervised Machine Learning; title: 6.6 Data Fusion; title: 6.6.1 Implementing Data Fusion Within IBSM; title: 6.7 Ontologies for Storage and Reasoning; title: 6.8 Characterizing Uncertainty