Models of Sensor Operations for Border Surveillance

Abstract

This paper is motivated by the diverse array of border threats, ranging from terrorists to arms dealers and human traffickers. We consider a moving sensor that patrols a certain section of a border with the objective to detect infiltrators who attempt to penetrate that section. Infiltrators arrive according to a Poisson process along the border with a specified distribution of arrival location, and disappear a random amount of time after their arrival. The measures of effectiveness are the target (infiltrator) detection rate and the time elapsed from target arrival to target detection. We study two types of sensor trajectories that have constant endpoints, are periodic, and maintain constant speed: (1) a sensor that jumps instantaneously from the endpoint back to the starting-point, and (2) a sensor that moves continuously back and forth. The controlled parameters (decision variables) are the starting and end points of the patrolled sector and the velocity of the sensor. General properties of these trajectories are investigated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 11, 2007
Accession Number
ADA487234

Entities

People

  • Dolev Cfir
  • Kyle Lin
  • Moshe Kress
  • Roberto Szechtman

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Border Security
  • Computer Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • High Resolution
  • Homeland Security
  • National Security
  • Night Vision
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Security
  • Surveillance
  • Target Acquisition
  • Target Detection
  • Trajectories

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.