Sensor management for surveillance and tracking: An operational perspective

Radars have gained increased popularity as sensing devices due to their unique capability to sense objects of interest at very long distances and without being severely limited by weather conditions. Advances in technology have led to the possibility of choosing the sensing parameters of a radar in order to further improve its performance....

Mission-driven Resource Management for Reconfigurable Sensing Systems

The spectrum of threats imposed upon modern society has drastically widened in the last decades. One of the required security means is sensor systems. There exist many types of sensors and their capabilities vary, but some of them are reconfigurable and able to provide many functions. Such sensors provide at different time instances a wide range...

Sensing what matters

Recently, the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) is executing missions in coastal regions with a lot of civil traffic. Furthermore, the opponent of a typical modern mission is not as apparent as was the case during e.g., the Cold War. In the direct vicinity of naval vessels are many objects and it is increasingly complex to identify which of those...

Automatic sensor management: Challenges and solutions

Due to technical advances and the changing political environment sensor management has become increasingly knowledge intensive. Aboard navy ships however, we see a decrease of available knowledge, both quantitative and qualitative. This growing discrepancy drives the need for automation of sensor management. Since the goal of sensor deployment...

Mission-Driven sensor management analysis, design, implementation and simulation

The management of sensors onboard of the vessels operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy is becoming increasingly knowledge intensive due to the fact that these vessels are equipped with state-of-the-art sensor systems that provide more functionality and more accurate information at the cost of more complex control mechanisms and due to the shift...