Stand-Off Detection of Suicide Bombers and Mobile Subjects [electronic resource] / edited by Hiltmar Schubert, A. Rimski-Korsakov.

Problem of Explosive Detection on Human Subjects -- MS-SRIP-Microwave System for Secret Standoff Inspection of People -- Secret Microwave "Door" for Inspection of People and Luggage -- Mip-Based Low-Cost Sensor for Short-Range Detection of Explosives -- Scanned Multiple (Electro-)Chemical Sensors Located at Critical Infrastructures -- Real-Time Detection of IED Explosives with Laser Ionization Mass Spectrometry -- High Speed Mid Infrared Detection of Explosives Using Laser Spectroscopy -- Remote Detection of Explosives by Enhanced Pulsed Laser Photodissociation/Laser-Induced Fluorescence Method -- Gas Analytical System of Explosive Detection for the Manual Check of Objects and Use in Walk-Through Portals -- Threat Detection DC to Daylight -- Stand-Off Detection of Concealed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS) -- Stand-Off Detection of Surface Contaminations with Explosives Residues Using Laser-Spectroscopic Methods -- Distributed Trace Level Explosives Sensor Network -- Time-Resolved Excitation-Emission Matrices Spectroscopic Approach to Explosives Detection -- Mid-Infrared Lidar for Remote Detection of Explosives -- Stand-Off Detection of Explosives of Suicide Bombers by Means of Open-Path FTIR Spectroscopy -- 14N NQR Detection of Explosives -- Stand-off Explosives Detection Using Terahertz Technology.

The book contains lectures of an international NATO-Russian Advanced Research Workshop about the Stand-off-Detection of concealed explosives or explosive charges carried by Suicide-Bombers or in mobile objects (vehicles). The explosives or explosive charges should be detected by harmless methods from a distance and unnoticed by persons under inspection. The ARW was one of a series of workshops before, dealing with the detection of explosives used by terrorists and was initiated by the "Explosive Detection Working Group" of NATO to create projects of applied research. The aim of the workshop was to present suitable projects, to exchange knowledge and to discuss the feasibility and realization of methods. Projects aim at improvements in sensing techniques that will allow the shortest developing time and are suitable for commercial production. Potential short time availability was a prioritizing isssue.