Towards an Optimal Design of a Data Fusion System for Maritime Domain Awareness (Poster)

Abstract

This paper discusses various design challenges to optimize fusion in the contexts of system capabilities and requirements constrained by application specific data characteristics, user expectations as well as programmatic constraints like cost and time. It provides a use-case in which a data driven and scenario-based design (SBD) methodology has been used to design a surveillance system to improve situation understanding and aid decision making in the maritime domain. It is shown for a real data fusion application that the incremental SBD methodology can be optimal with respect to all types of requirements in the presence of all design constraints.