Accurate localization of low-level radioactive source under noise and measurement errors

SenSys'08 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 183-196

  Chin, Jren Chit ^a   Yau, David K Y ^a   Rao, Nageswara S V ^b   Yang, Yong ^c   Ma, Chris Y T ^a   Shankar, Mallikarjun ^b  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

iterative pruning; noise and error management; radioactive source localization; sensor data fusion; sensor network

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS; APOLLONIUS CIRCLES; BACKGROUND RADIATION; CLOSED FORM; DIRTY BOMB; ERROR MANAGEMENT; FUSION ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE PRUNING; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOW-INTENSITY; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; RUN-TIME EFFICIENCY; SENSOR DENSITY; SIMULATION MODEL; SOURCE INTENSITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RADIATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

RADIOACTIVE PROSPECTING;

EID: 70350401005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460412.1460431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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