Integration of Topographical Information

Abstract

Complex sensing environments, such as in airborne ground surveillance or reconnaissance in an urban terrain, are increasingly present in modern applications of sensor data fusion. In order to fulfill user requirements even under those challenging conditions, it is not enough to use a broad spectrum of heterogeneous sensor systems and to integrate all available context information on the sensor performance and the object characteristics in the sense of the previous chapters. We also have to take advantage of context information on the sensing environment in itself insofar as it is the stationary or only slowly changing “stage” where a dynamic scenario evolves.