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Applications of level crossing theory to target intervisibility: to be seen or not to be seen?

Authors :
Zhang, Xin
Bar-Shalom, Yaakov
Willett, Peter
Segall, Ilana
Source :
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. July, 2005, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p840, 13 p.
Publication Year :
2005

Abstract

Here we discuss intervisibility (the existence of an unobstructed line of sight (LOS) between two points) accounting for the vertical and horizontal errors in the estimated locations of both points as well as elevation errors in the database of the terrain that could obstruct the LOS between these points. The errors are first simply treated as a 'white' noise sequence: we assume no correlation between the intervisibility at two different times, and the probability of an instantaneous intervisibility event is in this case developed. This is useful; but perhaps of greater concern is whether or not a target remains visible long enough and/or often enough that its motion can be tracked? Consequently, we present a second treatment in which the errors are stochastic processes of a certain bandwidth, and both the probability density function (pdf) of an intervisibility interval and the average number of intervisibility intervals over a certain time period are developed.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00189251
Volume :
41
Issue :
3
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsgcl.138482222