| Title | Remote Sensing of Explosives | |
| Date | Thursday April 17 2014, @11:20PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the more-bucks-for-your-bang dept. | ||
William Dunn, a Kansas State University engineer, and his research team have developed a patented technique that improves military security and remotely detects improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The same technique could help police during drug searches. Created with a grant from the US Marine Corps and private funding, the technique has promise in detecting the most common chemical explosives, nitrogen-rich explosives.
Dunn created a template-matching technique called signature-based radiation scanning to determine the presence of explosives. The template-matching technique works similar to a bar code. Dunn's team has created templates for nitrogen-rich explosives and if a material matches one of these templates, then it potentially contains nitrogen-rich explosives.
To detect explosives, soldiers can place a sensor on an unmanned vehicle or aircraft that travels ahead of troops and tests road surfaces and other areas for IEDs. The sensor uses the template-matching method to search for the presence of explosives. The sensor then uses red, green or yellow lights to communicate back to soldiers who are in a safe place. The red light tells soldiers that nitrogen-rich explosives are present, while a green light means there are no nitrogen-rich explosives and a yellow light means a material might contain nitrogen-rich explosives.
Currently, the unmanned system can work for distances around 1 to 3 meters away, but the researchers would like to make the system effective at 100-meter distances, which is nearly the length of a football field, Dunn said.
These appear to be the patents (which were filed in 2008 and published in 2012). On the other hand, explosives been getting more deadly.
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