Fusion of Imagery Attributes with Non-Imaging Sensor Reports by Truncated Dempster-Shafer Evidential Reasoning *

This paper describes an on-going effort to perform data fusion of uncertain, incomplete or poor quality information coming from imaging and non-imaging sensors present on-board the CP-140 (Aurora) Canadian maritime patrol aircraft. An Adaptable Data Fusion Testbed (ADFT) has been constructed where simulated and real data can be analyzed by modular algorithms for each of the main fusion functions and image interpretation algorithms in order to derive requirement specifications and help in the design phase towards fielding a real Data Fusion (DF) system.