Anomaly detection in radiation sensor data with application to transportation security

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 324-334

  Omitaomu, Olufemi A ^a   Ganguly, Auroop R ^a   Patton, Bruce W ^a   Protopopescu, Vladimir A ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly detection; Border and transportation security; Illicit radioactive material; Weigh station

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY DETECTION; BORDER AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY; DATA SETS; DETECTION PROCESS; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; ILLICIT RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; NEW APPROACHES; NUMBER OF FALSE ALARMS; RADIATION PORTAL MONITORS; RADIATION SENSORS; SIMULATED RADIATION; TRANSPORTATION SECURITY; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

ALARM SYSTEMS; AUTOMOBILES; MATERIALS HANDLING; RADIATION; RADIATION SHIELDING; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSPORTATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SENSORS; TRUCKS; WEIGH STATIONS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 67650245547     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2009.2020190     Document Type: Article

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