Detection of a target leaving intermittent traces

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Washburn, Alan R.
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Detection
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Intermittent
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1981-02
Date
1981-02
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
Abstract
A target reveals its presence by occasional emission of 'blobs' of material that are temporarily detectable by a searcher moving in the same medium. The main question addressed is 'how long will it take the searcher to detect a blob?' Diffusion of the blobs in two and three dimensions is included as a special case
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Technical Report
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https://hdl.handle.net/10945/29246
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NPS-55-81-007
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Prepared for: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93940
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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