Abstract
In 2010, the U.S. Army initiated a program through the Edgewood Chemical
Biological Center to identify viable spectroscopic signatures of explosives and
initiate environmental persistence, fate, and transport studies for trace residues.
These studies were ultimately designed to integrate these signatures into algorithms
and experimentally evaluate sensor performance for explosives and precursor
materials in existing chemical point and standoff detection systems. Accurate and
validated optical cross sections and signatures are critical in benchmarking
spectroscopic-based sensors. This program has provided important information for the
scientists and engineers currently developing trace-detection solutions to the
homemade explosive problem. With this information, the sensitivity of spectroscopic
methods for explosives detection can now be quantitatively evaluated before the
sensor is deployed and tested.
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