Chemical cloud tracking systems

Larry B. Grim; Thomas C. Gruber Jr.; Martin Marshall; Brad Rowland

doi:10.1117/12.455144

7 February 2002 Chemical cloud tracking systems

Larry B. Grim, Thomas C. Gruber Jr., Martin Marshall, Brad Rowland

Proceedings Volume 4574, Instrumentation for Air Pollution and Global Atmospheric Monitoring; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455144
Event: Environmental and Industrial Sensing, 2001, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes the Chemical Cloud Tracking System (CCTS) which has been installed at Dugway Proving Ground. The CCTS allows mapping of chemical clouds in real time from a safe standoff distance. The instruments used are passive standoff chemical agent detectors (FTIRs). Each instrument individually can only measure the total of all the chemical in its line-of-site; the distance to the cloud is unknown. By merging data from multiple vantage points (either one instrument moving past the cloud or two or more instruments spaced so as to view the cloud from different directions) a map of the cloud locations can be generated using tomography. To improve the sensitivity and accuracy of the cloud map, chemical point sensors can be added to the sensor array being used. The equipment required for the CCTS is commercially available. Also, the data fusion techniques (tomography) have been demonstrated previously in the medical field. The Chemical Cloud Tracking System can monitor the movement of many chemical clouds of either military or industrial origin. Since the technique is standoff, the personnel are not exposed to toxic hazards while they follow the cloud. Also, the equipment works on-the-move which allows rapid response to emergency situations (plant explosions, tanker car accidents, chemical terrorism, etc.).

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Larry B. Grim, Thomas C. Gruber Jr., Martin Marshall, and Brad Rowland "Chemical cloud tracking systems", Proc. SPIE 4574, Instrumentation for Air Pollution and Global Atmospheric Monitoring, (7 February 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455144

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