Stand-off Detection of Suicide Bombers and Mobile Subjects [Hardcover]

This book is derived from lectures at an international NATO-Russian Advanced Research Workshop on the Stand-off-Detection of concealed explosives carried by suicide-bombers or in vehicles. Ideally, explosives should be detected by harmless methods at a distance, and unknown to the persons under inspection. The aim is to devise sensing techniques that will allow the shortest developing time sufficient to start commercial production. Short time availability is a prioritizing isssue.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Stand-off Detection of Suicide-Bombers and Mobile Subjects, held in Pfinztal, Germany, 13-14 December 2005These proceedings contain the presentations of a NATO-Russian - vanced Research Workshop (ARW) held at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) near Karlsruhe, Germany, attended also by most of the members of the Explosive Detection Working Group (EDWG) of the Advisory Panel on Security-Related Civil Science and Technology. The ARW, approved by the NATO Science Committee, is the ?fth NATO- Workshop during the last 3 years dealing with the detection of explosives in connection with counter-terrorism. The special goal of this workshop was the exchange of knowledge and experiences in the special ?eld of Stand-Off Detection and to ?x the State of the Art in this ?eld of research. At the end of the workshop proposals of Research & Development were presented (but not included in the proceedings), which were eva- ated by the present members of the EDWG during the following day of the workshop. One of the ?rst measures to counter the threat will be to stop the transport of illicit materials, that means in our case to detect explosive charges before they are initiated by terrorists.Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Problem of Explosive Detection on Human Subjects; A. Rimsky-Korsakov.- MS-SRIP  Microwave System for Secret Standoff Inspection of People; A. Kuznetsov.- Secret Microwave 'Door' for Inspectiol³*