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Target tracking is a process carried out to estimate target states based on sensor measurements. A target is usually an object of interest, e.g. a vehicle, a ship, an aircraft, or a missile. The single-target refers to one target while multi-target refers to more-than-one targets. The target state refers to the unknown but interest information about the target. The typical target state includes the location and speed in the Cartesian coordinate system and it may also include other target characteristics such as identity, attribute, amplitude, size, shape or similarity. To estimate the unknown state of a target, sensor measurements are needed, which typically include time stamp, range, azimuth, elevation, Doppler, and amplitude information.
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Target birth includes target newborn and target spawning.
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A set for simple finite point process does not allow repeated elements, and only contains a limited number of elements.
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Wu, W., Sun, H., Zheng, M., Huang, W. (2023). Introduction. In: Target Tracking with Random Finite Sets. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9815-7_1
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