This paper discusses some of the techniques developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for information fusion of lidar-based biological standoff sensors, meteorology, point sensors, and potentially other information sources, for biodefense applications. The developed Spatiotemporal Coherence (STC) fusion approach includes phenomenology aspects and approximate uncertainty measures for information corroboration quantification. A supervised machine-learning approach was also developed. Computational experiments involved ground-truth data generated from measurements and by simulation techniques that were ...
This paper discusses selected aspects of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory effort developing information fusion techniques for biodefense decision-support tasks, involving biological standoff (lidar - light detection and ranging) sensors, meteorology, as well as point sensors and potentially other battlespace sensing and contextual information. The Spatiotemporal Coherence (STC) fusion approach developed in this effort combines phenomenology aspects with approximate uncertainty measures to quantify corroboration between the information elements. The results indicate ...