1. An event capture and filtering system comprising: a sensor data analysis system that identifies a plurality of detected events from provided sensor data, evaluates the sensor data to determine at least one characteristic associated with each event, and reports the plurality of detected events and their associated characteristics; at least one affiliated event generator operative to generate at least one affiliated event and produce at least one event report, a given event report including at least one characteristic associated with an affiliated event; an event filtering system that compares the at least one event report to the plurality of detected events to identify at least one affiliated event amongst the plurality of detected events and determines at least one unaffiliated event by filtering the identified affiliated events from the plurality of detected events; and a sensor control that allocates available sensor resources according to the associated characteristics of the determined at least one unaffiliated event.