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Non-cooperative target (NCT) refers to the objects with unknown state or attributes in air, space, marine, etc. For example, plenty of space missions involved in operation with non-cooperative target, i.e., servicing a malfunctioning satellite, refueling a powerless spacecraft, collecting and removing space debris. For ground-to-air or air-to-air activities, radar surveillance systems are developed to detect birds, weather and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and hot balloons, which are labeled as non-cooperative objects (Yuan, Distributing non-cooperative object information in next generation radar surveillance systems. Master’s thesis, University of Waterloo, 2014). Much of these objects can be traced to a few fundamental properties, such as unknown geometric appearance, uncooperative and non-communicative.
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Jing, Z., Pan, H., Li, Y., Dong, P. (2018). Introduction. In: Non-Cooperative Target Tracking, Fusion and Control. Information Fusion and Data Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90716-1_1
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