ABSTRACT

Field surveillance activities are typically based on a huge availability of sensorial data used, for instance, to determine the presence of entities in the patrolled area (e.g., ships, submarines, aircrafts), with the purpose of identifying them on the base of their behavioral characteristics, and

Contents 10.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 229 10.2 Models for Situation Awareness .......................................................................................231 10.3 Bayesian Belief Network .................................................................................................233 10.4 Artificial Neural Networks ............................................................................................. 239 10.5 Markov Model ............................................................................................................... 243 10.6 Evidence Theory ............................................................................................................. 246 10.7 Case Study ......................................................................................................................249 10.8 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................253 References ................................................................................................................................253