Field demonstration of a scanning lidar and detection algorithm for spatially mapping honeybees for biological detection of land mines
| Autor: | Colin B. Henderson, Erik S. Carlsten, Kevin S. Repasky, John L. Carlsten, Geoffrey Wicks, Jerry J. Bromenshenk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Light detection
business.industry Materials Science (miscellaneous) Optical instrument Ranging Signal Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Field (geography) law.invention Unexploded ordnance Optics Lidar Discrete time and continuous time law Environmental science Business and International Management business Remote sensing |
| Zdroj: | Applied Optics. 50:2112 |
| ISSN: | 1539-4522 0003-6935 |
| DOI: | 10.1364/ao.50.002112 |
| Popis: | A biological detection scheme based on the natural foraging behavior of conditioned honeybees for detecting chemical vapor plumes associated with unexploded ordnance devices utilizes a scanning lidar instrument to provide spatial mapping of honeybee densities. The scanning light detection and ranging (lidar) instrument uses a frequency doubled Nd:YAG microchip laser to send out a series of pulses at a pulse repetition rate of 6.853 kHz. The scattered light is monitored to produce a discrete time series for each range. This discrete time series is then processed using an efficient algorithm that is able to isolate and identify the return signal from a honeybee in a cluttered environment, producing spatially mapped honeybee densities. Two field experiments were performed with the scanning lidar instrument that demonstrate good correlation between the honeybee density maps and the target locations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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