Sensor management for multistatics

This paper focuses on sensor management for distributed sensor fields in deep water. This paper will investigate the sensor placement problem for the barrier scenario. Field performance is often based solely on sensor coverage or probability of detection evaluations, which provide only a fleeting snapshot of how the field is performing at a particular time. This paper utilizes an efficient time dependent approach to evaluating the performance of distributed sensor fields. Given a priori target probability distributions and sensor measurements distributed in time and space, the approach directly scores entire sensor fields based on their ability to detect threats over time. This formulation is used as an optimization metric for sensor management.