Networked thermal imaging and intelligent video technology for border security applications

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwight T. Dumpert ◽  
Shawn Dirksen
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Imaging ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Video Technology ◽  
Security Applications

scholarly journals Infrared: A Key Technology for Security Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Corsi
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Imaging ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Far Infrared ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Infrared Wavelength ◽  
Security Applications ◽  
Medical Diagnostic ◽  
Military Systems

Infrared science and technology has been, since the first applications, mainly dedicated to security and surveillance especially in military field, besides specialized techniques in thermal imaging for medical diagnostic and building structures and recently in energy savings and aerospace context. Till recently the security applications were mainly based on thermal imaging as surveillance and warning military systems. In all these applications the advent of room temperature, more reliable due to the coolers avoidance, low cost, and, overall, completely integrable with Silicon technology FPAs, especially designed and tailored for specific applications, smart sensors, has really been impacted with revolutionary and new ideas and system concepts in all the infrared fields, especially for security applications. Lastly, the advent of reliable Infrared Solid State Laser Sources, operating up to the Long Infrared Wavelength Band and the new emerging techniques in Far Infrared Submillimeter Terahertz Bands, has opened wide and new areas for developing new, advanced security systems. A review of all the items with evidence of the weak and the strong points of each item, especially considering possible future developments, will be reported and discussed.

Tomographic imaging for border security applications

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 389-394
Author(s):  
Kavitha Arunachalam ◽  
Satish S. Udpa ◽  
Lalita Udpa
Keyword(s):  
Tomographic Imaging ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Security Applications

Autonomous energy harvesting embedded sensors for border security applications

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhiman Hande ◽  
Pradeep Shah ◽  
James N. Falasco ◽  
Doug Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Embedded Sensors ◽  
Security Applications

EO/IR sensors for border security applications

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert McDaniel ◽  
Robert Hughes ◽  
Edward Seibel
Keyword(s):  
Border Security ◽  
Security Applications ◽  
Ir Sensors

Neutron Detection With Gamma-Ray Spectrometers for Border Security Applications

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 2215-2219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean J. Mitchell ◽  
Lee T. Harding ◽  
Kenneth R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Neutron Detection ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Security Applications

Thermal Imaging in Smart Applications

2017 ◽  
pp. 147-174
Author(s):  
Aqeel ur Rehman ◽  
Tariq Javid ◽  
Iqbal Uddin Khan ◽  
Ahmar Murtaza
Keyword(s):  
Embedded System ◽  
Temperature Measurement ◽  
Thermal Imaging ◽  
Infrared Detector ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Infrared Thermal Imaging ◽  
Security Applications ◽  
Image Acquisition System

Temperature measurement is an essential requirement for a large number of smart applications in medicine, agriculture, environment, and security domains, to name but a few. Conventionally, temperature measurements are mostly performed using thermometers, thermocouples, thermistors, and resistance temperature detectors. Most of these instruments require physical contact with the object to measure temperature at specific points. Infrared thermography has revolutionized the concept of temperature measurement. Infrared thermal imaging (IRTI) can provide the temperature mapping without a physical contact with the object of interest from a reasonable distance. A typical IRTI system comprises of a thermal camera equipped with infrared detector, a signal processing unit and an image acquisition system, usually in the form of an embedded system. Such cameras are utilized for applications like fault detection, irrigation management, motion detection, etc. This chapter briefly introduces use of thermal imaging in medicine, agriculture, environment, smart home/cities and security applications.

Correlative video enhanced differential interference contrast light microscopy (VDIC)-LM), low-voltage high-resolution SEM (LV-HR-SEM), and high-voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) in the observation of gold-labelled surface antigens and the subjacent cytoskeletal matrix

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 904-905
Author(s):  
Ralph M. Albrecht ◽  
Scott R. Simmons ◽  
Marek Malecki
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Microscopic Analysis ◽  
Cell Labelling ◽  
Video Technology ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Image Capture ◽  
High Voltage Electron Microscopy ◽  
Fluorescence Studies

The development of video-enhanced light microscopy (LM) as well as associated image processing and analysis have significantly broadened the scope of investigations which can be undertaken using (LM). Interference/polarization based microscopies can provide high resolution and higher levels of “detectability” especially in unstained living systems. Confocal light microscopy also holds the promise of further improvements in resolution, fluorescence studies, and 3 dimensional reconstruction. Video technology now provides, among other things, a means to detect differences in contrast difficult to detect with the human eye; furthermore, computerized image capture, processing, and analysis can be used to enhance features of interest, average images, subtract background, and provide a quantitative basis to studies of cells, cell features, cell labelling, and so forth. Improvements in video technology, image capture, and cost-effective computer image analysis/processing have contributed to the utility and potential of the various interference and confocal microscopic instrumentation.Electron microscopic technology has made advances as well. Microprocessor control and improved design have contributed to high resolution SEMs which have imaging capability at the molecular level and can operate at a range of accelerating voltages starting at 1KV. Improvements have also been seen in the HVEM and IVEM transmission instruments. As a whole, these advances in LM and EM microscopic technology provide the biologist with an array of information on structure, composition, and function which can be obtained from a single specimen. Corrrelative light microscopic analysis permits examination of living specimens and is critical where the “history” of a cell, cellular components, or labels needs to be known up to the time of chemical or physical fixation. Features such as cytoskeletal elements or gold label as small as 0.01 μm, well below the 0.2 μm limits of LM resolution, can be “detected” and their movement followed by VDIC-LM. Appropriate identification and preparation can then lead to the examination of surface detail and surface label with stereo LV-HR-SEM. Increasing the KV in the HR-SEM while viewing uncoated or thinly coated specimens can provide information from beneath the surface as well as increasing Z contrast so that positive identification of surface and subsurface colloidal gold or other heavy metal labelled/stained material is possible. Further examination of the same cells using stereo HVEM or IVEM provides information on internal ultrastructure and on the relationship of labelled material to cytoskeletal or organellar distribution, A wide variety of investigations can benefit from this correlative approach and a number of instrumentational configurations and preparative pathways can be tailored for the particular study. For a surprisingly small investment in time and technique, it is often possible to clear ambiguities or questions that arise when a finding is presented in the context of only one modality.

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