Distributed multi static sonar tracking in clutter

Abstract

Multi static underwater surveillance must conserve energy by communicating between nodes as sparsely as possible. On the other hand, signal to clutter ratio is usually very low, resulting in large number of clutter measurements per ping. When the local target tracking is performed in each receiver node, the false measurements are largely eliminated and communications are used (almost) exclusively to report targets to the fusion center. © 2012 ISIF (Intl Society of Information Fusi).