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Air target identification is an important issue in threat warning, airline security and surveillance. To obtain accuracy and reliability, the multisensor is used to give multiple sources information. Thus, an algorithm to fuse the information from the multisensor is needed. The (Dempster-Shafer) evidence theory is a generalization of Bayesian statistics. Evidential reasoning is suited to a range of decision-making activities. But it is invalid when dealing with conflicting probabilities. In this paper, a new weighted D-S combination rule is proposed to solve the conflicting management in the air target identification system. In the weighted method presented here, it is to modify evidences rather than to modify the combination rule. The rationality and effectiveness of the weighted method are evaluated by the target identification system.
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Wang, X., Wang, Y., Yu, X., Wang, Z., Pang, Y. (2007). Evidential Reasoning Based on Multisensor Data Fusion for Target Identification. In: Beliczynski, B., Dzielinski, A., Iwanowski, M., Ribeiro, B. (eds) Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms. ICANNGA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4431. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71618-1_60
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