Resource-Aware Multi-Target Tracking in Distributed Sensor Networks

The ability to track targets is essential in many applications. Well-established military applications include missile defense and battlefield situational awareness. Civilian applications are ever-growing, ranging from traditional applications such as air traffic control and building surveillance to emerging applications like supply chain management and wildlife tracking. In all of these applications, target tracking addresses the problem of combining sensed data and target history to provide accurate and timely knowledge of the location of one or more moving objects.