Efficient and robust localization of multiple radiation sources in complex environments

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 780-789

  Chin, Jren Chit ^a   Yau, David K Y ^a,b   Rao, Nageswara S V ^c  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b ADVANCED DIGITAL SCIENCES CENTER   (Singapore)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM COMPLEXITY; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; ESTIMATION PARAMETERS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HYBRID FORMULATIONS; ITS EFFICIENCIES; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; MEAN SHIFT; NETWORK OF SENSORS; PARTICLE FILTER; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RADIATION SOURCE; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; RANDOM ERRORS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 80051900022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2011.94     Document Type: Conference Paper

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