A structure health monitoring ("SHM") system according to the invention
can be deployed in an onboard environment, such as an aircraft, to
provide an ongoing damage assessment of structural components on the
aircraft. The SHM system reduces or eliminates time consuming and costly
manual inspections of aircraft. The SHM system can leverage known sensor
technologies to collect sensor data indicative of the structural health
of the monitored components. The sensor data is processed and baselined
with sensor feature baselines and damage estimate baselines to provide an
accurate final damage estimate for the monitored component. The final
damage estimate can be further processed or formatted for compatibility
with aircraft maintenance systems.