The rapid growth and increasing sophistication of airborne surveillance technology have spurred intense research efforts in the development and implementation of tracking algorithms capable of processing a large number of targets using multi-sensor data. In this paper, a novel tracking algorithm, the NOGA tracker, is presented and compared with the more conventional Time-Weighted Backvalues Least Squares (TWBLS) estimator for accuracy (numerical and phenomenological), ease of implementation, and time performance. The NOGA tracker combines model predictions and sensor measurements to produce best estimates for quantities of interest. The state estimator model used for NOGA is a simple second order auto-regression which is combined with an uncertainty reduction scheme involving nonlinear Lagrange optimization process in which the inverse of a global covariance matrix is used as the natural metric for the Bayesian inference that underlies the combining process. The NOGA tracker explicitly incorporates sensor and model uncertainties in the estimation process, and uses model sensitivities to propagate the associated covariance matrices accurately and in a systematic way.
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