Solving the data-link bottleneck for MPEG location

The aim of MPEG (Multi-Platforms Emitter Geolocation) is to use several measurements Angle Of Arrival (AOA) or Time Of Arrival/Frequency Of Arrival (TOA/FOA) from different Electronic Support Measures (ESM) platforms to determine an accurate emitter location. Sensors are geographically dispersed, and to combine the information that they acquire requires the information to be communicated to some location(s) where the data integration process occurs. The data link between the ESM platforms is expected to permit only very low data rates with a high latency. This means that the platforms can only exchange very restricted amounts of data. A potentially optimal way to compress the information when the measurements are noisy is to extract from the measurements an exhaustive statistic that summarizes all the information content at the local ESM. How to provide an exhaustive statistics for practical measurements system in the case of information fusion is presented. It is done either on Information Matrix form or based on a Taylor series expansion of the measurement in time or space.