A moving radioactive source tracking and detection system

Author

Liu, Hui ; Yao, Yingwei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 March 2009

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

54

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the tracking and detection of moving radioactive sources using an array of sensors that are deployed along the highway to collect gamma particle counts. When a potential radioactive source carrier passes by the array of sensors, gamma particle counts are collected and are sent to a fusion center for estimating vehicle motion state using particle filter technique. Then the radioactive sources detection is carried out using likelihood ratio test scheme. The performance of tracking and detection test scheme is shown by the numerical result.

Keywords

array signal processing; motion estimation; particle filtering (numerical methods); signal detection; tracking; gamma particle counts; likelihood ratio test scheme; particle filter technique; radioactive source tracking; sensor arrays; source detection system; vehicle motion state estimation; Gamma ray detection; Gamma ray detectors; Gamma rays; Motion estimation; Particle tracking; Road transportation; Sensor arrays; Sensor fusion; State estimation; Testing; detection; large deviations; radioactive source;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Sciences and Systems, 2009. CISS 2009. 43rd Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2733-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2734-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISS.2009.5054689

Filename

5054689