Wireless Sensor Network for Tactical Situation Assessment

This paper describes a complete solution of a new dropped wireless sensor network (called abandoned since it is never picked up) dedicated to intelligence operation. The sensor network, named SEXTANT for Smart sEnsor X for Tactical situation AssessmeNT and presented in this paper is the achievement of several years of research and development in the fields of data fusion and smart sensors at the French Aerospace Lab. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of experimental results obtained with our Joint Tracking and Classification (JTC) algorithm. The originality of this algorithm relies on the use contextual information in the target tracking processing and data fusion for target classification processing.

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This paper describes a complete solution for a new dropped wireless sensor network dedicated to intelligence operation. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of experimental results obtained with a Joint Tracking and Classification algorithm that utilizes contextual information for data fusion.