Data fusion: A preliminary study. Final report
Angelique Keene, M. Perre · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1990
Military intelligence processing in an increasingly complex domain, due to the incorporation of data from multiple sensors. The information is distributed in space and time and is subject to uncertainty and incompleteness. The process of combining multi-sensor data into a model of the domain of interest is known as data fusion. This report aims to provide an initial insight into the ground that has to be covered by a system that will support data fusion. We address the tasks associated with intelligence processing. Several views on data fusion are discussed. We then present various methods and techniques from the areas of databases, artificial intelligence and probability theory that may provide solutions for dealing with some of the problems pertaining to multi-sensor data fusion.