• DocumentCode
    1131502
  • Title

    NCTR Plus Sensor Fusion Equals IFFN or can Two Plus Two Equal Five?

  • Author

    Nahin, Paul J. ; Pokoski, John L.

  • Author_Institution
    University of New Hampshire
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1980
  • fDate
    5/1/1980 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    320
  • Lastpage
    337
  • Abstract
    Fowler\´s Seventh Law for military systems [1] states: "Be wary of proposals for synergistic systems. Most of the time when you try to make 2 + 2 = 5, you end up with 3-and sometimes 1.9." We attempt to approach the broad issues of IFFN (identification, friend, foe, neutral) of military targets via the techniques of NCTR (noncooperative target recognition), coupled with the systems approach called "sensor fusion." Although the overall style of the paper is that of a tutorial, many of the results presented are original. In all cases where we make political obsrvations, they represent our personal opinions.
  • Keywords
    Acceleration; Eyes; Force sensors; Humans; Infrared image sensors; Optical sensors; Proposals; Sensor fusion; Target recognition; Weapons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.1980.308902
  • Filename
    4102326