Unattended ground sensors for monitoring national borders
John H. McQuiddy · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2008
Monitoring national borders for illegal border crossing activity is a difficult task. Relying on border monitoring personnel patrolling large border areas as the sole solution is very taxing and expensive due to varying terrain and the need to monitor 24 hours every day. Augmenting personnel with technology is required to maintain the level of persistent surveillance needed for high probability of crossing activity detection and alertment of personnel for interdiction and apprehension. This presentation describes the technical capabilities current unattended ground sensors provide to support border monitoring applications. Target coverage, target classification and identity, real time reporting, and distributed information access are necessary.