Existing and potential standoff explosives detection techniques / Committee on the Review of Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques ; Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology ; Division on Earth and Life Studies ; National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Review of Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Explosives--Detection--Congresses.

Explosives.

Bomb reconnaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques examines the scientific techniques currently used as the basis for explosives detection and determines whether other techniques might provide promising research avenues with possible pathways to new detection protocols. This report describe the characteristics of explosives, bombs, and their components that are or might be used to provide a signature for exploitation in detection technology; considers scientific techniques for exploiting these characteristics to detect explosives and explosive devices; discusses the potential for integrating such techniques into detection systems that would have sufficient sensitivity without an unacceptable false-positive rate; and proposes areas for research that might be expected to yield significant advances in practical explosives and bomb detection technology in the near, mid, and long term.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Acknowledgment of Reviewers

Contents

Executive Summary

1 Introduction

2 Elements of Detection: Concepts, Threats, and Devices

3 Systems of Detection

4 Chemical Characteristics of Bombs

5 Existing Detection Techniques and Potential Applications to Standoff Detection

6 Biological Markers

7 Unexploited Potential Bases of Detection

8 Summary of Committee Recommendations

Appendixes

Appendix A Statement of Task Review of Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques

Appendix B Glossary

Appendix C Presentations to the Committee.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786610176496

9780309166034

0309166039

9781280176494

1280176490

9780309529594

030952959X

OCLC:

56793850