SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING PICTURES OF TRACKS OF MOVING TARGETS FROM ELECTRO-OPTICAL DETECTIONS

A tracking system 10 and method for constructing pictures of tracks of moving targets on a scene from electro-optical (EO) detections are described. The system includes EO sensors 11, and an EO tracker 12 constructing pictures of the tracks of the targets. The EO tracker 12 includes a pre-processing system 120 for receiving EO detections of the targets and locating the targets on a world map, a candidate track selection system 130 for finding candidate tracks, a track initializing module for receiving the EO detections and initializing a new track, an assigning system for assigning the EO detections to the candidate tracks, a data updating system 170 for updating the candidate tracks after the assigning, and for generating an ambiguity set of tracks and an exclusion set of tracks, a picture providing system for receiving the ambiguity set and the exclusion set to generate a picture, and a tracker database 150 for storing the updated tracks.