Simultaneous tracking of a maneuvering ship and its wake using Gaussian processes

Maneuvering ship tracking has applications in maritime surveillance and the performance of tracking algorithms is affected by background clutter and ship-generated wake. Previous works consider the wake as a form of clutter with some specific spatial distribution. In this paper, the Kelvin wake, which assumes that the ship-generated wake is V-shaped, is modelled as an extended target with an irregular and time-varying shape. Thus, the problem …