Using queuing models to aid design and guide research effort for multimodality buried target detection systems

Jordan M. Malof; Leslie M. Collins

doi:10.1117/12.2224131

3 May 2016 Using queuing models to aid design and guide research effort for multimodality buried target detection systems

Jordan M. Malof, Leslie M. Collins

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Proceedings Volume 9823, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXI; 98231K (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224131
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

Many remote sensing modalities have been developed for buried target detection (BTD), each one offering relative advantages over the others. There has been interest in combining several modalities into a single BTD system that benefits from the advantages of each constituent sensor. Recently an approach was developed, called multi-state management (MSM), that aims to achieve this goal by separating BTD system operation into discrete states, each with different sensor activity and system velocity. Additionally, a modeling approach, called Q-MSM, was developed to quickly analyze multi-modality BTD systems operating with MSM. This work extends previous work by demonstrating how Q-MSM modeling can be used to design BTD systems operating with MSM, and to guide research to yield the most performance benefits. In this work an MSM system is considered that combines a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) camera and a ground penetrating radar (GPR). Experiments are conducted using a dataset of real, field-collected, data which demonstrates how the Q-MSM model can be used to evaluate performance benefits of altering, or improving via research investment, various characteristics of the GPR and FLIR systems. Q-MSM permits fast analysis that can determine where system improvements will have the greatest impact, and can therefore help guide BTD research.

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Jordan M. Malof and Leslie M. Collins "Using queuing models to aid design and guide research effort for multimodality buried target detection systems", Proc. SPIE 9823, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXI, 98231K (3 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224131

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Forward looking infrared

Sensors

General packet radio service

Target detection

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Performance modeling

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