Vehicle tracking using a network of small acoustic arrays

Vincent P. Calloway; Ruth Hodges; Stephen A. Harman; Andrew L. Hume; Dean A. Beale

doi:10.1117/12.541490

9 August 2004 Vehicle tracking using a network of small acoustic arrays

Vincent P. Calloway, Ruth Hodges, Stephen A. Harman, Andrew L. Hume, Dean A. Beale

Proceedings Volume 5429, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XIII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.541490
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Major advances in base technologies of computer processors and low cost communications have paved the way for a resurgence of interest in unattended ground sensors. Networks of sensors offer the potential of low cost persistent surveillance capability in any area that the sensor network can be placed. Key to this is the choice of sensor on each node. If the system is to be randomly deployed then non line of sight sensor become a necessity. Acoustic sensors potentially offer the greatest level of capability and will be considered here. In addition, there is a trade off between sensor density and tracking technique that will impact on cost. As a passive sensor, only time of arrival or bearing information can be obtained from an acoustic array, thus the tracking of targets must be done in this domain. This paper explores the critical step between array processing and implementation of the tracking algorithm. Specifically, unlike previous implementations of such a system, the bearings from each frequency interval of interest are not averaged but are used as data points within a Kalman filter. Thus data is not averaged and then filtered but all data is put into the tracking filter.

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Vincent P. Calloway, Ruth Hodges, Stephen A. Harman, Andrew L. Hume, and Dean A. Beale "Vehicle tracking using a network of small acoustic arrays", Proc. SPIE 5429, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XIII, (9 August 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.541490

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Sensors

Acoustics

Detection and tracking algorithms

Filtering (signal processing)

Electronic filtering

Interference (communication)

Unattended ground sensors

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