Detection and parameter estimation of multiple radioactive sources

FUSION 2007 - 2007 10th International Conference on Information Fusion

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Morelande, Mark ^a   Ristic, Branko ^b   Gunatilaka, Ajith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Cramer Rao bound; Gamma radiation; Monte Carlo integration; Parameter estimation; Poisson statistics

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; DATA FUSION; ESTIMATION; FUSION REACTIONS; INFORMATION FUSION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE PROSPECTING; RADIOACTIVITY; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

BAYESIAN ESTIMATION; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; CRAMER-RAO BOUND; GAMMA RADIATION; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MONTE CARLO INTEGRATION; MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PERFOR MANCE COMPARISON; POISSON STATISTICS; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 50149090202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2007.4408094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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