Vapour and Trace Detection of Explosives for Anti-Terrorism Purposes / Edition 1

by M. Krausa

Overview

The fast detection of explosives from the vapor phase would be one way to enhance the protection of society against terrorist attacks. Up to now the problem of detection of explosives, especially the location of explosives whether at large areas e. g. station halls, theaters or hidden in cars, aircraft cargo, baggage or explosives hidden in crowds e. g. suicide bombers or bombs in bags has not been solved. Smelling of explosives like dogs do seems to be a valuable tool for a security chain. In general different strategies can be adopt to the basic problem of explosive detection: • bulk detection • vapor detection Normally meetings cover both aspects and applications of the detection. Even though both methods might fulfill special aspects of a general security chain the underlying scientific questions differ strongly. Because of that the discussions of the scientists and practitioners from the different main directions are sometimes only less specific. Therefore the NATO Advisory Panel in Security-Related Civil Science and Technology proposed a small series of NATO ARW's which focuses on the different scientific aspects of explosives detection methods. This book is based on material presented at the first NATO ARW of this series in Moscow which covered the topic: Vapor and trace detection of explosives. The second ARW was held in St. Petersburg and treated the topic Bulk detection methods. The third workshop was held in Warwick and focused on electronic noses which cover a somewhat different aspect of vapor detection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402027154
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/20/2004
Series:	NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry , #167
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

1 Vapor Detection of Explosives for Countfr-Terrorism.- 2 Methods of Detection of Vapors and Traces of Explosives: A Modern Condition and Perspectives of Researches and Development.- 3 Detection of Explosives for Terrorist-Bombs and Landmine Clearance Different Applications of Similar Methods.- 4 Vapour and Trace Detection of Explosives.- 5 Analysis of Explosive Vapour Emission to Guide the Development of Vapour Detectors.- 6 Development and Characterization of Explosive Standards for Training and Testing of Vapor-Phase-Detectors.- 7 Tracking the Terrorists: Identification of Explosive Residues in Post-Explosion Debris by Lc/Ms Methods.- 8 Remote Explosive Scent Tracing — a method for detection of explosive and chemical substances.- 9 Detection of Traces of Explosives by Means of Sniffing Dogs.- 10 New Drift Spectrometer With the Surfase Ionization of the Organic Molecules.- 11 High-Speed Gas Analysis for Explosives Detection.- 12 Novel Technique for Ultra Sensitive Detection of Organic Compunds.- 13 The Analytical Characteristics of Ion Mobility Increment Spectrometer During the Detection of Explosive Vapours and Products of Their Degradation.- 14 Potentials and Requirements of an Electronic Nose for Use as a Vapor-Based Detector of Explosive Packages.- 15 Detection of Explosives Residues on Aircraft Boarding Passes.- 16 Freight Screening — Trace Detection.