Evaluation of sensor management systems

The authors outline a framework within which evaluation and comparison of sensor management systems should be performed. The four aspects of this framework are: (1) selection of numerical measures of performance (MOPs) which are relevant to the mission goals; (2) determination of the relative importance (weights) of each of these MOPs with respect to the mission goals; (3) definition of benchmark scenarios for evaluating the performance of the sensor management system with respect to these MOPs and mission goals; and (4) comparison of the performance of the sensor management system to the performances of several basic sensor management systems with respect to the benchmark scenarios