Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications at INFORMATIK 2011 - Informatik schafft Communities
Berlin 2011

Abstract: When flying a mission, a fighter pilot is exposed to the risk of being hit by enemy fire. A tactical support system can aid the pilot by calculating the survivability of a given route, i.e. the probability that the fighter pilot can fly the route without being hit. The survivability estimate will be uncertain due to uncertainty in the information about threats in the area. In this paper, we investigate these uncertainties in the estimates of the survivability and compare two different measures of uncertainty; standard deviation and entropy. Furthermore, we discuss how these measures could be used for sensor management and discuss a few issues that need to be addressed in the design of a sensor management system in a fighter aircraft.