Sensor and data fusion of remotely sensed wide-area geospatial targets

This thesis consists of the examination of methodologies for sensor fusion and data fusion of remotely sensed, sparse geospatial targets. Methods for attaining an increased awareness of targets in both tactical and strategic roles are proposed and examined. The example methodologies are demonstrated, and areas for further research noted. Discussions of the proposed methods are carried forth in the context of iceberg detection. -- Amongst the difficulties associated with the combination of sensor parameters and sensor data are the wide variety of technologies, performance ability, coverage, and reliability that are available to those users of remote sensing technology. Typical sensors include airborne search radars, marine search radars, surface wave radar, and satellite synthetic aperture radar. The ability to mitigate the related parametric variances is the test of an appropriate sensor or data fusion algorithm. -- Documented herein are the efforts to find such an algorithm using various statistical methods. Primary among these is Bayes Theorem combined with tracking systems such as the multiple hypothesis tracker. This and other methodologies are explored and evaluated, where appropriate. It will be demonstrated that such a methodology can combine sensor data returns to provide high performance, wide-area, situational awareness with sensors considered to have poor performance

Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen