DocumentCode
3154907
Title
Stochastic localization of CBRN releases
Author
Locke, R. Taylor ; Paschalidis, Ioannis Ch
Author_Institution
MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA, USA
fYear
2012
fDate
25-30 March 2012
Firstpage
2613
Lastpage
2616
Abstract
We present a novel methodology for chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) source localization in urban environments. Our approach uses only information reported by CBRN sensors monitoring the environment and thus does not rely on solving any challenging inverse plume dispersion problems. We illustrate and evaluate our technique using three-dimensional CBRN release simulations.
Keywords
environmental monitoring (geophysics); inverse problems; sensor placement; stochastic processes; terrorism; CBRN releases; CBRN sensors monitoring; CBRN source localization; chemical-biological-radiological-nuclear source localization; inverse plume dispersion problems; stochastic localization; three-dimensional CBRN release simulations; urban environments; Chemical and biological sensors; Chemicals; Dispersion; Markov processes; Solid modeling; Wind; CBRN detection; Markov chains; optimization; sensor placement; source localization;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Kyoto
ISSN
1520-6149
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0045-2
Electronic_ISBN
1520-6149
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288452
Filename
6288452
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