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.
National Research Council. 2004. Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/10998.
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Front Matter | i-x | |
Executive Summary | 1-11 | |
1 Introduction | 12-17 | |
2 Elements of Detection: Concepts, Threats, and Devices | 18-34 | |
3 Systems of Detection | 35-55 | |
4 Chemical Characteristics of Bombs | 56-70 | |
5 Existing Detection Techniques and Potential Applications to Standoff Detection | 71-96 | |
6 Biological Markers | 97-103 | |
7 Unexploited Potential Bases of Detection | 104-116 | |
8 Summary of Committee Recommendations | 117-122 | |
Appendix A Statement of Task | 123-125 | |
Appendix B Glossary | 126-128 | |
Appendix C Presentations to the Committee | 129-138 |
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