Tracking and Data Association
Yaakov Bar‐Shalom, Thomas E. Fortmann, Peter G. Cable · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1990
The mathematical theory of tracking had an early and distinguished start.In 1801, Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the basis of meager observations, computed the orbit of the newly discovered asteroid Ceres.When, a year later, Ceres was rediscovered precisely where Gauss predicted it would be, his fame as a mathematician was secured.In his calculations Gauss em-