Quantifying the advantage of vector over scalar magnetic sensor networks for undersea surveillance

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Hauptverfasser: Li, Wenchao, Wang, Xuezhi, Sun, Qiang, Kealy, Allison N., Greentree, Andrew D.
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author Li, Wenchao
Wang, Xuezhi
Sun, Qiang
Kealy, Allison N.
Greentree, Andrew D.
author_facet Li, Wenchao
Wang, Xuezhi
Sun, Qiang
Kealy, Allison N.
Greentree, Andrew D.
contents Magnetic monitoring of maritime environments is an important problem for monitoring and optimising shipping, as well as national security. New developments in compact, fibre-coupled quantum magnetometers have led to the opportunity to critically evaluate how best to create such a sensor network. Here we explore various magnetic sensor network architectures for target identification. Our modelling compares networks of scalar vs vector magnetometers. We implement an unscented Kalman filter approach to perform target tracking, and we find that vector networks provide a significant improvement in target tracking, specifically tracking accuracy and resilience compared with scalar networks.
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spellingShingle Quantifying the advantage of vector over scalar magnetic sensor networks for undersea surveillance
Li, Wenchao
Wang, Xuezhi
Sun, Qiang
Kealy, Allison N.
Greentree, Andrew D.
Signal Processing
Quantum Physics
Magnetic monitoring of maritime environments is an important problem for monitoring and optimising shipping, as well as national security. New developments in compact, fibre-coupled quantum magnetometers have led to the opportunity to critically evaluate how best to create such a sensor network. Here we explore various magnetic sensor network architectures for target identification. Our modelling compares networks of scalar vs vector magnetometers. We implement an unscented Kalman filter approach to perform target tracking, and we find that vector networks provide a significant improvement in target tracking, specifically tracking accuracy and resilience compared with scalar networks.
title Quantifying the advantage of vector over scalar magnetic sensor networks for undersea surveillance
topic Signal Processing
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24250