Shooter localization and weapon classification with soldier-wearable networked sensors

MobiSys'07: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 113-126

  Volgyesi, Peter ^a   Balogh, Gyorgy ^a   Nadas, Andras ^a   Nash, Christopher B ^a   Ledeczi, Akos ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic source localization; Caliber estimation; Data fusion; Sensor networks; Weapon classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA FUSION; MICROPHONES; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SENSOR ARRAYS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

ACOUSTIC SOURCE LOCALIZATIONS; CALIBER ESTIMATIONS; TRAJECTORY PRECISIONS; WEAPON CLASSIFICATIONS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 35448956121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1247660.1247676     Document Type: Conference Paper

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