DMHT-based undersea surveillance: Insights from MSTWG analysis and recent sea-trial experimentation

NURC has developed a high-performance, computationally-efficient, flexible, and robust fusion and tracking capability for undersea surveillance, with extensive simulation-based and sea-trial testing. This paper documents recent experimental results, based on simulated datasets developed for common analysis under the auspices of the Multistatic Tracking Working Group (MSTWG), as well as real datasets from a recent experimental campaign with mobile and fixed assets. Analysis of these datasets has led to a number of new insights relevant to effective undersea surveillance.