Data association and geolocation for electronic support systems

Authors:
Hugh L. Kennedy;William Scott;Stephen C. Cook
Affiliations:
The Defence and Systems Institute (DASI), University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia;The Defence and Systems Institute (DASI), University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia;The Defence and Systems Institute (DASI), University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia
Venue:
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Data association (DA) in highly sensitive electronic support (ES) systems is nontrivial when closely-spaced, low probability-of-intercept (LPI) emitters, in cluttered radio-frequency (RF) environments, are sought. A practical processing framework for these situations is presented in this paper. Joint probabilistic data association (JPDA) is used to handle the multitarget tracking (MTT) problem in frequency-augmented direction-of-arrival versus time coordinates (i.e. 'signal' space). It is shown that the JPDA update has a pleasantly simple form when processing a serial stream of time-stamped measurements. A Bayesian M-out-of-N track confidence model is derived using the beta distribution and used to 'integrate' automatic track management functions (i.e. JIPDA). A maximum-likelihood expectation-maximisation (ML-EM) algorithm is also derived and applied to perform bearing-only target-motion-analysis (TMA) in geographic coordinates for confirmed JIPDA tracks. The application of EM compensates for previous measurement-to-signal-track assignment errors and decreases the deleterious influence of spurious measurements, due to clutter or other emitters, without combinatorial complexity.