Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations

1	Perspectives on Distributed Data Fusion David L. Hall

CONTENTS

1.1    Introduction

1.2    Brief History of Data Fusion

1.3    JDL Data Fusion Process Model

1.4    Process Models for Data Fusion

1.5    Changing Landscape: Key Trends Affecting Data Fusion

1.6    Implications for Distributed Data Fusion

References

1.1    INTRODUCTION

Multisensor data fusion has an extensive history and has become a relatively mature discipline. Extensive investments in data fusion, primarily for military applications, have resulted in a number of developments: (1) the widely referenced Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) data fusion process model (Kessler et al. 1991, Steinberg et al. 1998, Hall and McMullen 2004); (2) numerous mathematical techniques for ...