iScout low cost UGS system: overview of enhancements and performance characterization

Mark Winston; Rob Klug; Thomas Plummer; Ron Knobler

doi:10.1117/12.778229

23 April 2008 iScout low cost UGS system: overview of enhancements and performance characterization

Mark Winston, Rob Klug, Thomas Plummer, Ron Knobler

Proceedings Volume 6963, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications X; 69630Y (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.778229
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

McQ developed for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) a very low-cost iScout® sensor system for detecting people in buildings and caves after military clearing operations to prevent their reuse by adversaries. The mission applications have expanded to include typical field operations such as Force Protection and facility security. To meet a broader mission capability, McQ significantly enhanced the performance of the iScout® Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) system. The enhanced performance includes improvements to the seismic, acoustic, magnetic, and passive infrared sensor processing algorithms and multimodal fusion to improve target classification. Additional features are a new radio frequency (RF) network architecture, built-in global positioning system (GPS) for automatic sensor position reporting, a new rugged watertight case, and an extremely low power consumption electronics design. McQ will describe these enhancements and present data characterizing the performance of the enhanced iScout® sensors.

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Mark Winston, Rob Klug, Thomas Plummer, and Ron Knobler "iScout low cost UGS system: overview of enhancements and performance characterization", Proc. SPIE 6963, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications X, 69630Y (23 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.778229

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