Automated sequential search for weak radiation sources

14th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kumar, A ^a   Tanner, H G ^a   Klimenko, A V ^b   Borozdin, K ^b   Priedhorsky, W C ^b  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL INTERACTION; SEQUENTIAL NUCLEAR SEARCH; WEAK RADIOACTIVE POINT SOURCE;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; RADIATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 35948930696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2006.328866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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