Evaluation of multiple radar target trackers in stressful environments

A fusion study of the FAVS sensors suite

“…Many fusion and tracking algorithms are available [3][4] which presents goddo performance in high clutter environment. Various technique of fusion process [5][6] should also be include in the study…”

Architecture of a multistatic FMCW direction-finding radar

“…Furthermore, the conclusions of [20], comparing the performance of NN and PDA methods, in terms of both tracking performance and robustness, for a practical tracker in cluttered environment with real target data, enforces the selection of GNN as the data association method to be used by multistatic central station multiple target tracker. More details about GNN can be found in [16].…”

“…The sets formed after the procedure described above, are properly processed with the aid of NLSE and UT to obtain the initial estimate and covariance matrix of the new tentative tracks as presented in [20].…”

“…Furthermore, the electromagnetic radar wave transmission effects, as affecting the targets SNR, are considered. False target returns are also added, to evaluate the algorithms performance in dense clutter environment [20].…”

“…The operational principle of each receiver is based on a technique known as stretch processing [13], according to which each receiver demodulates the target echo signal by means of a reference signal originated from the transmitter. This procedure of range extraction is a well-known technique used in the monostatic FMCW radar [11,20]. The simultaneous extraction of Doppler frequency is performed from a sequence of waveforms (sweeps) as illustrated in [14].…”