Passive multi-modal sensors for the urban environment

Andrew Ladas; Ronald Frankel

doi:10.1117/12.609712

27 May 2005 Passive multi-modal sensors for the urban environment

Andrew Ladas, Ronald Frankel

Proceedings Volume 5796, Unattended Ground Sensor Technologies and Applications VII; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.609712
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The urban environment poses a great many obstacles for the modern soldier, from complex buildings and streets to unknown or hidden combatants and non-combatants. To provide improved situational awareness and short range protection, a variety of sensors and sensor systems are under investigation and development. In order to provide timely information from small, low-cost sensor systems, ARL has been investigating the use of passive multi-modal sensors for the individual soldier. These sensors will combine several different sensing modalities, and combine the information from these sensors at the sensor level. This will improve the sensors ability to discriminate targets, reduce false alarms and minimize the amount of information required to be transmitted to the user. In addition, passive sensors are inherently lower power and more covert than active systems. This report will detail the initial accomplishments, and present early data on several sensing modalities under investigation.

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Andrew Ladas and Ronald Frankel "Passive multi-modal sensors for the urban environment", Proc. SPIE 5796, Unattended Ground Sensor Technologies and Applications VII, (27 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.609712

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