Unattended Monitoring of Suspicious Behaviour for Route Surveillance

Unattended Monitoring of Suspicious Behaviour for Route Surveillance

TNO Defensie en Veiligheid
Schoemaker, R.M.
Sandbrink, R.D.J.
van Voorthuijsen, G.P.

Carapezza, E.M. (editor)

2010

A priori information on suspicious behaviour is extremely valuable for countering threats involving improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Suspicious activities along routes during expeditionary operations can be monitored by unattended networks using simple sensing nodes that can gather data for continuous monitoring of daily vehicle activity. Dedicated software yields the necessary intelligence on these activities by filtering suspicious behaviour from anomalous behaviour (including false alarms). Research has started to equip a commercially available sensor network with data analysis software. It aims at demonstrating the detection of suspicious behaviour along roads, within a required time span. Three phases are distinguished. First phase is the analysis of traffic flux in a simple scenario with three networks lying at three junctions. The second phase investigates the ability to track and classify one object in this scenario, while the third phase aims to track and classify two or more objects. Findings are presented for phase one, flux measurements.A priori information on suspicious behaviour is extremely valuable for countering threats involving improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Suspicious activities along routes during expeditionary operations can be monitored by unattended networks using simple sensing nodes that can gather data for continuous monitoring of daily vehicle activity. Dedicated software yields the necessary intelligence on these activities by filtering suspicious behaviour from anomalous behaviour (including false alarms). Research has started to equip a commercially available sensor network with data analysis software. It aims at demonstrating the detection of suspicious behaviour along roads, within a required time span. Three phases are distinguished. First phase is the analysis of traffic flux in a simple scenario with three networks lying at three junctions. The second phase investigates the ability to track and classify one object in this scenario, while the third phase aims to track and classify two or more objects. Findings are presented for phase one, flux measurements.

Intelligent sensor networks
Unattended ground sensor
Abnormal and suspicious behaviour
Counter-IED
Intelligence gathering
Situation awareness
Route surveillance.

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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.850134

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SPIE, Bellingham, WA

Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XII, 5 April 2010, Orlando, FL, USA, 76930S/1-10

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

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