Online Solving of Inverse Problems in Critical Infrastructure Monitoring

In this paper online monitoring issues for infrastructure disaster preparedness was analyzed taking into account the difficulties in monitoring due to ill-posed inverse problems. For this case of real-time sensing followed by online inverse problem solving was investigated. Difficulties resulting from the ill-posed problem of estimation of internal variables of a distributed parameters system from local measurements on the boundary of the system will be analyzed using a generic simulator developed for such problems. The paper illustrates these issues by focusing on monitoring explosions to be sensed in real-time using distance temperature sensing, away from explosion location and online reconstruction of the explosion parameter