title: Thermal luminescence spectroscopy chemical imaging sensor.
abstract: The authors present a pseudo-active chemical imaging sensor model embodying irradiative transient heating, temperature nonequilibrium thermal luminescence spectroscopy, differential hyperspectral imaging, and artificial neural network technologies integrated together. We elaborate on various optimizations, simulations, and animations of the integrated sensor design and apply it to the terrestrial chemical contamination problem, where the interstitial contaminant compounds of detection interest (analytes) comprise liquid chemical warfare agents, their various derivative condensed phase compounds, and other material of a life-threatening nature. The sensor must measure and process a dynamic pattern of absorptive-emissive middle infrared molecular signature spectra of subject analytes to perform its chemical imaging and standoff detection functions successfully.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), Research and Technology Directorate, 5183 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21010-5424, USA. arthur.h.carrieri.civ@mail.mil
authors.forename: Arthur H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Carrieri
authors.forename: Tudor N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Buican
authors.forename: Erik S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Roese
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sutter
authors.forename: Alan C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Samuels
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002619:Chemical Warfare Agents / Q000032:analysis*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008163:Luminescent Measurements / Q000295:instrumentation*; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D013696:Temperature; D013817:Thermography / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D002619:Chemical Warfare Agents