An information gain driven search for a radioactive point source

FUSION 2007 - 2007 10th International Conference on Information Fusion

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ristic, Branko ^a   Gunatilaka, Ajith ^a   Rutten, Mark ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Counterterrorism; Cram r Rao bound; Fisher information; Monte Carlo estimation; Nuclear detection; Nuclear search; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; FUSION REACTIONS; GAMMA RAYS; INFORMATION FUSION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VECTORS;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; CONTROL VECTORS; COUNTERTERRORISM; EXPOSURE TIME; FISHER INFORMATION; GAMMA RADIATION; INFORMATION GAIN; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MONTE CARLO ESTIMATION; NUCLEAR DETECTION; NUCLEAR SEARCH; OBSERVER CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROL; PARTICLE FILTERING; POINT SOURCES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSOR LOCATIONS; SOURCE DETECTION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 50149096859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2007.4408041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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