Biological aerosol warning sensor model: An approach to model architecture and accelerated false alarm prediction

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5617, Issue , 2004, Pages 14-22

  Pitts, Jonathan D ^a   Cousins, Daniel ^a   Goyette, Amanda ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated false alarms; Aerosols; BAWS; False positive rate; ROC curves; Sensor model; Sensor performance

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ALARM SYSTEMS; CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

ACCELERATED FALSE ALARMS; BIOLOGICAL AGENT WARNING SENSORS (BAWS); FALSE POSITIVE RATE; ROC CURVES; SENSOR MODELS; SENSOR PERFORMANCE;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 17644382254     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.578329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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