openBURST: Real-time air surveillance simulation andanalysis for active and passive sensors

openBURST 1 is intended to provide the air surveillance sensor community with a framework for the development and testing of sensor coverage and real-time target detection analysis.openBURST focuses on the overall performance assessment of a sensor network.Besides static coverage diagram computations, openBURST facilitates real-time computation of sensor detections for simulated targets.This allows the statistical performance analysis of air picture generation in a given scenario.By providing a flexible and extendable framework to model and simulate active, passive, monostatic, and multistatic sensors, openBURST provides the implementation of optimization and machine learning approaches for sensor portfolio performance optimization in air surveillance.