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Appendix D: Acronyms and Glossary of Terms
Pages 52-54

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... Artemis: a CWA standoff detection system designed to augment existing CWA detection systems to provide a theater-wide capability of near real-time detection and warning. Blackbody: an object that completely absorbs incident radiation of all wavelengths and emits radiation according to Planck' s law.
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... Lidar: light detection and ranging an active detection technique using a laser-like beam as the transmitter. M21 RSCAAL: Remote Sensing Chemical Agent Alarm.
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... `~dJ ~ ~ A A ~ E E ~ n ° e: ~ cat o ~ ~ ° ~ ;, i' ~ ~ ~ ~ 0 = ~ BY ~ ~ U o~ 0~ ~~ at ~ Z a: ~ Z a: ,= \ ^/ \ / _` ~ ~ ~ .
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Key Terms

  • chemical agent
  • target chemicals
  • agent detector
  • input data
  • emits radiation

  • joint service
  • detection technique
  • augment existing
  • standoff detection
  • absorption plus

  • standoff chemical
  • chemical instruments
  • final desired
  • radiation according
  • absorbs incident

  • completely absorbs
  • differential absorption
  • solid particles
  • target gas
  • incident radiation

  • corresponding properties
  • lightweight standoff
  • cwa standoff
  • multivariate algorithms
  • service lightweight

  • cwa detection
  • plus scattering
  • physical form
  • quantitative analysis
  • active detection


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