Spectroscopic investigations of surface deposited biological warfare simulants

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8358, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Barrington, Stephen J ^a   Bird, Hilary ^a   Hurst, Daniel ^a   McIntosh, Alastair J S ^a   Spencer, Phillippa ^a   Pelfrey, Suzanne H ^a   Baker, Matthew J ^a,b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Biological warfare; Infrared spectroscopy; Pre processing; Surface deposited. Bacillus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOHAZARDS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL WARFARE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPLOSIVES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL CLASSIFICATIONS; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS; PRE-PROCESSING; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE;

EID: 84870202830     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.915707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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