Locating sensors for detecting source-to-target patterns of special nuclear material smuggling: A spatial information theoretic approach

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 8070-8091

  Przybyla, Jay ^a   Taylor, Jeffrey ^a   Zhou, Xuesong ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Information theory; Kalman filter; Nuclear material smuggling; Sensor network

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION ERRORS; EXPECTED INFORMATIONS; NUCLEAR MATERIAL; NUCLEAR MATERIAL DETECTION; RADIATION SENSORS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK;

INFORMATION THEORY; KALMAN FILTERS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS;

RADIOACTIVE ELEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRIME; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; STANDARD; TERRORISM; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ALGORITHMS; CRIME; ELEMENTS, RADIOACTIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TERRORISM; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 77958005629     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100908070     Document Type: Article

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