SMALL TARGET TRACKING TECHNIQUE WITH DATA FUSION OF DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NET

A method is derived to fuse the data of small target. Considering small target detection is always at the cost of a dense clutters because of the low detection threshold, this method includes track initiation for the case of small target in clutter and modified joint probabilistic data association and tracking algorithm. Special attention is paid to track initiation with Hough Tranform for the association algorithm. Simulation test and results are also given in the paper.