Biological Wide-area AeRosol Detector (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.

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

  • Direct viewing of video stream over VNC,
  • Integration to existing network, or
  • Use in dedicated network allowing built-in KML server to distribute satellite overlay to an arbitrary number of users.

Benefits: The approach provides wide area persistent surveillance using low cost sensors and informed, physics based models.

For more information, contact: jdupuis@psicorp.com