MTE ground station testbed-a battlefield awareness asset for GMTI exploitation

The focus of this paper is to describe the moving target exploitation (MTE) ground station testbed-a battlefield awareness asset based on the Army´s common ground station (CGS) whose primary capability is the exploitation of ground moving target indicator (GMTI) radar data. In this paper, we describe the core GMTI and high range resolution (HRR) exploitation capabilities to be integrated into the MTE ground station testbed. These core capabilities include: (i) a multiple hypothesis tracker (MHT) capable of tracking on- and off-road targets, group targets, and performing road-constrained, terrain-constrained, and length-aided tracking, (ii) a sensor resource manager capable of mode tasking the airborne sensor for GMTI or HRR data, and (iii) a vehicle-level fusion capability capable of accruing classification evidence for single vehicles and group composition evidence for vehicle groups. The sensor emulation platform (SEP), a Navy AT3 attack/bomber aircraft serving as a surrogate for the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), will serve as the airborne sensor generating and down linking GMTI and HRR waveforms to the ground station testbed for exploitation