OCULUS Sea Track Fusion Service

ABSTRACT Oculus Sea is a complete solution regarding maritime surveillance and communications at Local as well as Central Command & Control level. It includes a robust and independent track fusion service whose main functions include: 1) Interaction with the User to suggest the fusion of two or more tracks, confirm Track ID and Vessel Metadata creation for the fused track, and suggest de-association of two tracks 2) Fusion of same vessel tracks arriving simultaneously from multiple radar sensors featuring track Association, track Fusion of associated tracks to produce a more accurate track, and Multiple tracking filters and fusion algorithms 3) Unique Track ID Generator fo r each fused track 4) Track Dissemination Service. Oculus Sea Track Fusion Service adopts a sy stem architecture where eac h sensor is associated with a Kalman estimator/tracker that obtains an estimate of the state vector and its respective error covariance matrix. Finally, at the fusion center, association and track state estimation fusion are carried out. The expected benefits of this system include multi-sensor information fusion, enhanced spatial resolution, and improved target detection. Keywords: Vessel tracking, Track Associatio n, Tracks Fusion, Multi-sensor data