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Detection of a target leaving intermittent traces

by: Washburn, Alan R.

Publication date: 1981-02

Topics: SOUND--TRANSMISSION.GIRDERS.MECHANICS.VIBRATION.ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS.RAYLEIGH WAVES.LAMB WAVES.

Publisher: Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School

Collection: navalpostgraduateschoollibrary; fedlink; americana

Contributor: Naval Postgraduate School, Dudley Knox Library

Language: en_US

Title from cover

"Prepared for: Naval Postgraduaet School, Monterey, California 93940"--Cover

"February 1981"--Cover

"NPS55-81-007"--Cover

Author(s) key words: Detection, search, intermittent

Includes bibliographical references (p. 10)

Technical report; 1981

A target reveals its presence by occasional emission of 'blobs' of material that are temporarily detectable by a searcher moving in the same medium. The main question addressed is 'how long will it take the searcher to detect a blob?' Diffusion of the blobs in two and three dimensions is included as a special case

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