Detection of gas plumes in cluttered environments using long-wave infrared hyperspectral sensors

Joshua B. Broadwater; Thomas S. Spisz; Alison K. Carr

doi:10.1117/12.784707

21 April 2008 Detection of gas plumes in cluttered environments using long-wave infrared hyperspectral sensors

Joshua B. Broadwater, Thomas S. Spisz, Alison K. Carr

Proceedings Volume 6954, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing IX; 69540R (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.784707
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Long-wave infrared hyperspectral sensors provide the ability to detect gas plumes at stand-off distances. A number of detection algorithms have been developed for such applications, but in situations where the gas is released in a complex background and is at air temperature, these detectors can generate a considerable amount of false alarms. To make matters more difficult, the gas tends to have non-uniform concentrations throughout the plume making it spatially similar to the false alarms. Simple post-processing using median filters can remove a number of the false alarms, but at the cost of removing a significant amount of the gas plume as well. We approach the problem using an adaptive subpixel detector and morphological processing techniques. The adaptive subpixel detection algorithm is able to detect the gas plume against the complex background. We then use morphological processing techniques to isolate the gas plume while simultaneously rejecting nearly all false alarms. Results will be demonstrated on a set of ground-based long-wave infrared hyperspectral image sequences.

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Joshua B. Broadwater, Thomas S. Spisz, and Alison K. Carr "Detection of gas plumes in cluttered environments using long-wave infrared hyperspectral sensors", Proc. SPIE 6954, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing IX, 69540R (21 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.784707

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