GTT 2013 - Special Session on Ground Target Tracking, Classification, and Sensor Management

Surveillance, tracking, classification, and sensor management of ground targets using the airborne ground moving target indicator (GMTI) radar, spaceborne GMTI radar, unattended ground sensor (UGS), electro-optical (EO) sensor, infrared (IR), and video sensor have received a great deal of attention in recent years. Ground target tracking is more complex than air or sea surface target tracking due to the constraints (e.g. road network, non-trafficable region) imposed by the terrain, for which uncertain data is available. Since an airborne GMTI sensor platform can operate at a large standoff distance from the surveillance area, the terrain often occludes the radar line-of-sight. These issues make the ground target tracking problem challenging.