Intelligent Querying Techniques for Sensor Data Fusion

Background And Related Research

Sensor data fusion poses some special problems. First of all, there is no general solution to the problem of sensor data fusion for an unlimited number of different types of sensors. The problem is usually restricted to a limited number of object types observed from a specific perspective by a limited number of sensors (White, 1998). One such example is to select sensors that are looking only at ground objects, primarily vehicles, from a top view perspective where the sensors are carried by a flying platform such as a helicopter. By studying this restricted problem in detail, we may be able to understand better how to deal with complex queries for sensor data fusion. For a more general view on sensor data fusion, see (Hall & Llinas, 2001).