Multisensor data fusion

Abstract

Growing demand for better sensing and monitoring systems and for more effective means of processing the increasing flow of information has led to the wider implementation of multisensor data fusion techniques. With the recent rapid developments in sensor technology and in the advanced methods of signal and data processing, multisensor data fusion is becoming one of the most important new techniques to be used in many military, industrial and commercial applications. This article offers a brief overview of the fusion area illustrated by several examples of established techniques, their limitations, proposed new solutions and other new developments.