Distributed detection of a nuclear radioactive source based on a hierarchical source model

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2901-2904

  Sundaresan, Ashok ^a   Varshney, Pramod K ^a   Rao, Nageswara S V ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision fusion; Distributed detection; Hierarchical model; Restricted MLE

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; DECISION FUSION; DISTRIBUTED DETECTION; FUSION CENTER; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD-RATIO TESTS; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; LOCAL SENSORS; PARALLEL SENSOR; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; QUANTIZERS; RADIATION SENSORS; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; RESTRICTED MLE; ROC CURVES; SOURCE MODELS;

ACOUSTICS; DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIOACTIVE PROSPECTING; RADIOACTIVITY; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70349226748     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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