Localization under random measurements with application to radiation sources

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rao, Nageswara S V ^a   Shankar, Mallikarjun ^a   Chin, Jren Chit ^b   Yau, David K Y ^b   Ma, Chris Y T ^b   Yang, Yong ^c   Hou, Jennifer C ^c   Xu, Xiaochun ^d   Sahni, Sartaj ^d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection and localization; Distance difference; Point radiation source

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC SOLUTIONS; DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; DISTANCE-DIFFERENCE; GEOMETRIC METHODS; INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS; LOCALIZATION METHODS; OF SENSORS; OVERALL PERFORMANCES; POINT RADIATION SOURCE; RADIATION SOURCES; RANDOM MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RANDOM MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS;

FUSION REACTIONS; INFORMATION FUSION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MEASUREMENTS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; RANDOM ERRORS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; STATISTICAL TESTS; WINDOWS;

DATA FUSION;

EID: 56749142968     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2008.4632200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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