Wide-area metal detection system for crowd screening

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5071, Issue , 2003, Pages 380-387

  Nelson, Carl V ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeland defense; Metal detection; Metal detector array; Security system

Indexed keywords

CROWD SCREENING; HOMELAND DEFENSE; METAL DETECTION; METAL DETECTOR ARRAYS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; VIDEO CAMERAS; VIDEO RECORDING;

METAL DETECTORS;

EID: 1642556865     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484846     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Carl V. Nelson, "Wide Area Metal Detection (WAMD) System and Method for Security Screening Crowds" patent pending, 2003.
2. Modern Metal Detectors, Charles L. Garrett, RAM Publishing, 2002.
3. Carl V. Nelson, Charles B. Cooperman, Wolfger Schneider, Douglas S. Wenstrand, and Dexter G. Smith, "Wide Bandwidth Time-domain Electromagnetic Sensor for Metal Target Classification," IEEE. Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp 1129-1138, June 2001.
4. Carl V. Nelson, Deborah Mendat and Toan Huynh, "Steerable Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Sensor System For Detection And Classification Of Metal Targets," Proceeding of SPIE AeroSense 2003 Conference, Orlando, FL, 21-25 April 2003, in press.
5. Carl V. Nelson and Toan B. Huynh, "Spatial Scanning Time-domain Electromagnetic Sensor: High Spatial and Time Resolution Signatures from Metal Targets and Low-metal Content Land Mines," Proceeding of SPIE AeroSense 2002 Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2002.
6. Carl V. Nelson and Mary R. Keller, "Wide Bandwidth, Time Decay Signatures from UXO Targets," Proceeding of SPIE AeroSense 2002 Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2002.
7. Carl V. Nelson, T. B. Huynh, T. Writer and P. R. Lacko and, "Horizontal electromagnetic field sensor for detection and classification of metal targets," Proceeding of SPIE, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets, vol. 4394, pp. 65-74, Orlando, FL, 16-20 April 2001.
8. L. Collins, Ping Gao, D. Schofield, J. P. Moulton, L. C. Makowsky, D. M. Reidy and R. C. Weaver, "A Statistical Approach to Landmine Detection Using Broadband Electromagnetic Induction Data," IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp 950-962, April 2002.
9. C. E. Baum, Detection and Identification of Visually Obscured Targets, C. E. Baum, Editor, Taylor & Francis, 1999.
10. ASTM Committee Call for Metal Detector and Medical Device Compatibility Standards, Dec. 2002.