CTBT Integrated Verification System Evaluation Model (IVSEM),
Abstract
The CTBT Integrated Verification System Evaluation Model (IVSEM) is being developed to provide a tool for evaluation of the relative utility of candidate monitoring system concepts, for exploring opportunities for synergy among monitoring technologies, and to help define needed technology thrusts. The goal is to develop an affordable, portable, and easy to use and understand model which is flexible enough and fast enough to allow for near real time evaluation of the relative effectiveness of a wide spectrum of user-definable monitoring and test configurations. The emphasis is on moderate fidelity modeling of the capabilities of an integrated monitoring system which combines multiple sensor types, as opposed to high fidelity monitoring of the individual sensor types (breadth versus depth). In its current form, the model includes seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound, and radionuclide sensors and provides estimates of the detection effectiveness of a user-defined monitoring configuration against a user-defined test configuration (yield, location, altitude or depth and decoupling factor). Future efforts include incorporation of estimates of location and identification effectiveness plus validation of the model against more detailed single phenomenology models or experimental data. The model mns in near real-time on a PC or workstation platform.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 14, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADP204493
Entities
People
- Larry S. Walker
- Mike Edenburn
Organizations
- Sandia National Laboratories