2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security最新文献

Systems Engineering Solution for Technology Deployment to Combat Complex Threat Scenarios in the Homeland 应对本土复杂威胁场景的技术部署系统工程解决方案

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534462

M. Tierney, S. Guharay, D. Colella, G. Jacyna, P. Barry, M. Koehler, T. Bergen-Hill, B. Tivnan

引用次数: 1

Megavolt Computed Tomography for Air Cargo Container Inspection 航空货物集装箱检查的兆伏计算机断层扫描

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534414

J. Bendahan, W. Garms

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引用次数: 4

Critical Infrastructure and Control Systems Security: An Interdisciplinary Approach 关键基础设施和控制系统安全:跨学科的方法

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534496

R. Ellis

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引用次数: 3

Incident Scene Mobility Analysis 事故现场移动性分析

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534460

Ying Huang, Wenbo He, K. Nahrstedt, W.C. Lee

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引用次数: 9

Detection of Explosives using nanofibrous membranes 利用纳米纤维膜探测爆炸物

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534483

A. Kumar, I. Leshchiner, S. Nagarajan, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar

引用次数: 3

Hybrid Multidimensional Relational and Link Analytical Knowledge Discovery for Law Enforcement 面向执法的混合多维关联和链接分析知识发现

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534442

C. Joslyn, D. Gillen, J. Burke, T. Critchlow, M. Damante, R. Fernandes

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引用次数: 4

Emergency Data Awareness: Sharing Under Stress 紧急数据意识:压力下的共享

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534469

L. Budnick

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引用次数: 1

A Case Study on Data Interoperability for License Plate Recognition 车牌识别数据互操作性案例研究

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534456

G. Harman

{"title":"A Case Study on Data Interoperability for License Plate Recognition","authors":"G. Harman","doi":"10.1109/THS.2008.4534456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/THS.2008.4534456","url":null,"abstract":"The Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois is unique in that several cities in multiple counties and two states are separated by the Mississippi River. Two bridges provide the main transit between states, and also provide a conduit for criminals to escape after committing a crime on one side or the other. This paper examines an ongoing project based in Davenport, IA (the largest of the Quad Cities) to integrate an automated license plate recognition (LPR) system with data sources from individual cities and agencies, both states, and a number of federal agencies. It discusses the technical and organizational details of the project and successes and lessons learned. During an ongoing pilot program, a cruiser in the Davenport, IA Police Dept. was equipped with a LPR system. This system runs in the background of the cruiser's MDT (mobile data terminal), identifying the license plates of vehicles that come within range of the cruiser's camera. DropFire added the BLAZEtrade interoperability platform to facilitate the delivery of raw license plate data from repositories of law enforcement data to the LPR system. Challenges presented during the course of this project have included information governance issues, limitations on data processing resources and retrieval volume, wireless bandwidth, and limitations on the LPR system's ability to differentiate between states. Solutions to these challenges are discussed.","PeriodicalId":366416,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124153316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Information Sharing for Emergency Response 应急响应信息共享

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534489

G. Singh

引用次数: 2

Eagle-Eyes: A System for Iris Recognition at a Distance 鹰眼:远距离虹膜识别系统

2008 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Pub Date : 2008-05-12 DOI: 10.1109/THS.2008.4534490

F. Bashir, Pablo Casaverde, D. Usher, Marc Friedman Retica

引用次数: 49