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SECURITY & TRACKING RESEARCH

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Selected Research Profiles

• Lasers underlie novel methods in remote sensing, detection, recognition, authentication, and tracking systems. . .
• Computers support target tracking and prediction. . .
  
  Identifying and eliminating enemy weapons while in motion is critical to reducing loss of human life and damage to vital military and domestic installations. Dr. Yaakov Bar-Shalom is a world expert in target tracking technology for estimating the paths of moving objects using probability-based computer methods. Several techniques developed by Dr. Bar-Shalom - including probabilistic data-association filtering (PDAF), multi-target or joint data-association filtering (JPDAF) and interacting multiple model (IMM) tracking algorithms - are considered essential to target tracking, whether for air-traffic control or ballistic missile tracking. In his current work, Dr. Bar-Shalom focuses on development of advanced computing systems for information processing in the areas of defense against ballistic missiles, tracking the motion of stealthy targets (from underwater to space), civilian and military air traffic, tracking a large number of moving surface targets, and biomedical applications such as tracking the motion of fibroblast cells.
  
  
• Building computer-communication networks to withstand attack. . .
• Getting RF power transmission to and telemetry from a waterborne sonar array. . .
• New methods link information networks securely. . .