A controlled search for radioactive point sources

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CBRN data fusion; Nuclear search; Obstacles; Particle filter; Search strategy; Sensor management

Indexed keywords

AIR FILTERS; DATA FUSION; FUSION REACTIONS; INFORMATION FUSION; NONLINEAR FILTERING; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVITY; RHENIUM; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; WAVE FILTERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CBRN DATA FUSION; NUCLEAR SEARCH; OBSTACLES; PARTICLE FILTER; SEARCH STRATEGY; SENSOR MANAGEMENT;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 56749130136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2008.4632351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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