Dr. Martin is a Senior Research Engineer with 20 years' experience in navigation systems, target identification and tracking systems, optimal estimation theory, data fusion, and image processing. He has worked on air, space, and marine applications involving inertial systems, GPS, SAR, and surveillance and tracking radars. His responsibilities have ranged from system design to real-time software development and hardware/software integration.

At Integrity Systems, Dr. Martin is currently the principal investigator of the Air Force-sponsored SBIR Phase II project, Common Reference Frame for Multiplatform Operations. He has developed several attractive methods for geoid height model compression, for use in making geoid-height corrections when combining ellipsoid- and geoid-referenced vertical position data from different sources. He has also quantified the effects of vertical datum errors on target location accuracy in different areas.

Also at Integrity Systems, Dr. Martin built and tested C versions of the real-time TECCS Object Impact Predictor (TOIP) software for use during flight testing at Edwards AFB. This multi-threaded software was converted from a single-thread Fortran prototype also developed by Integrity Systems.

While employed at another firm, Dr. Martin was the principal investigator on both commercial and research video imaging projects. One such project was the development of a digital video surveillance system intended to replace or augment video tape-based systems; another was a research effort into obtaining the 3D geodetic position of objects observed in video imagery obtained from aerial platforms.

Dr. Martin contributed to sensor data fusion algorithms that were part of a ballistic missile defense demonstration system. Dr. Martin developed multisensor track correlation and track fusion algorithms for the demonstration system. The sensors were assumed to be theater ballistic missile defense radars with overlapping coverage. The algorithms were implemented in Ada on Unix workstations using object-oriented analysis and design techniques.

While at Integrity Systems in 1990-93, Dr.Martin contributed to navigation system development, including a distributed multiple model adaptive estimator for multisensor navigators. This estimator provided an optimal fused navigation solution by combining data from sensor-dedicated filters, while employing multiple models in parallel filters to accommodate uncertainties in the sensor error parameters.

Elsewhere, he has participated in the development of a digital flight control system for aircraft ejection seats, developing ejection seat flight dynamics models. He has also worked as a software test engineer for the Kalman filter of an early operational GPS navigation system.

Dr. Martin received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University in 1993, and his B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Maine at Orono in 1976.