Identification of low-level point radiation sources using a sensor network

Proceedings - 2008 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 493-504

  Rao, Nageswara S V ^a   Shankar, Mallikarjun ^a   Srivathsan, Srinivasagopalan ^b   Iyengar, S Sitharama ^b   Chin, Jren Chit ^c   Yau, David K Y ^c   Yang, Yong ^d   Hou, Jennifer C ^d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection and localization; Point radiation source; Sequential probability ratio test

Indexed keywords

DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; POINT RADIATION SOURCE; RADIATION SOURCES; SEQUENTIAL PROBABILITY RATIO TEST;

ALARM SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ERRORS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); KETONES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; SENSORS;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 51249118817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPSN.2008.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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