Association Tracking of Vessels Using X-Band Radar Data in Complex Waterborne Environment

Accurate association tracking of targets in complex waterborne environment is a hot research topic in the field of waterborne transportation safety. In recent years, the number of vessels has steadily increased and the navigation environment of inland rivers has become increasingly crowded, which makes the existing association tracking method based on single radar echo feature information unable to achieve accurate association tracking of vessels in dense target scenarios. In order to solve the problem, a target association tracking method based on radar echo multi-feature information is proposed in this paper, which realizes the accurate association tracking of targets in dense target waterborne scenarios. Meanwhile, the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed method are verified by real radar data in the Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River.