Detection of a Target Leaving Intermittent Traces.

Abstract

A target reveals its presence by occasional emission of 'blobs' of material that are temporarily detectable by a searcher moving in the same medium. The main question addressed is 'how long will it take the searcher to detect a blob?' Diffusion of the blobs in two and three dimensions is included as a special case. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA099115

Entities

People

  • A. R. Washburn

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • California
  • Detection
  • Diffusion
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Naval Intelligence
  • Numerical Integration
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Rhode Island
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Submarine Warfare
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Turbulent Diffusion

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Educational Psychology
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.