Robust site security using smart seismic array technology and multi-sensor data fusion

Dean Hellickson; Paul Richards; Zane Reynolds; Joshua Keener

doi:10.1117/12.849130

5 May 2010 Robust site security using smart seismic array technology and multi-sensor data fusion

Dean Hellickson, Paul Richards, Zane Reynolds, Joshua Keener

Proceedings Volume 7666, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense IX; 766625 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849130
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Traditional site security systems are susceptible to high individual sensor nuisance alarm rates that reduce the overall system effectiveness. Visual assessment of intrusions can be intensive and manually difficult as cameras are slewed by the system to non intrusion areas or as operators respond to nuisance alarms. Very little system intrusion performance data are available other than discrete sensor alarm indications that provide no real value. This paper discusses the system architecture, integration and display of a multi-sensor data fused system for wide area surveillance, local site intrusion detection and intrusion classification. The incorporation of a novel seismic array of smart sensors using FK Beamforming processing that greatly enhances the overall system detection and classification performance of the system is discussed. Recent test data demonstrates the performance of the seismic array within several different installations and its ability to classify and track moving targets at significant standoff distances with exceptional immunity to background clutter and noise. Multi-sensor data fusion is applied across a suite of complimentary sensors eliminating almost all nuisance alarms while integrating within a geographical information system to feed a visual-fusion display of the area being secured. Real-time sensor detection and intrusion classification data is presented within a visual-fusion display providing greatly enhanced situational awareness, system performance information and real-time assessment of intrusions and situations of interest with limited security operator involvement. This approach scales from a small local perimeter to very large geographical area and can be used across multiple sites controlled at a single command and control station.

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Dean Hellickson, Paul Richards, Zane Reynolds, and Joshua Keener "Robust site security using smart seismic array technology and multi-sensor data fusion", Proc. SPIE 7666, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense IX, 766625 (5 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849130

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