Biological Wide-Area Aerosol Detector (BioWARD)
BioWARD
Capability Description: Standalone sensor in weatherproof enclosure detects thermal objects with consistent appearance/behavior to a bioaerosol plume and determines a threat probability.
- A physics-based plume model is employed to screen thermal objects of interest
- Thermal objects are tracked across the field of regard, building up a history of attributes associated with each object.
- Threat probability is generated on a per-object history basis, based on appearance, motion, dispersion, elevation, size, etc.
- Threat-like objects are geolocated via triangulation of two sensors, reported to the user, and overlaid on a satellite map.
BioWARD deployed at Dugway Proving Ground
Key Features
- Employs commercial uncooled thermal and visible imagers and on-board processor,
- Powered via shore-power or optional solar panel +12V, 200Ah battery
- Outputs accessible over Ethernet, enabling o Direct viewing of video stream over VNC, o Integration to existing network, or o Use in dedicated network allowing built-in KML server to distribute satellite overlay to an arbitrary number of users.
BioWARD (left); image overlay of detected BWA simulant (center); Geo-located Threat Satellite Overlay (right)
