Combating nuclear smuggling? Exploring drivers and challenges to detecting nuclear and radiological materials at maritime facilities

International concern over nuclear terrorism has grown during the past few decades. This has driven a broad spectrum of efforts to strengthen nuclear security globally, including the widespread adoption of radiation-detection technology for border monitoring. Detection systems are now deployed at strategic locations for the purported purpose of detecting and deterring the smuggling of nuclear and radioactive materials. However, despite considerable investment in this area, few studies have examined how these programs are implemented or the operational challenges they face on a day-to-day basis. This article seeks to address this with a focus on radiation-detection efforts at maritime facilities. Utilizing practitioner interviews and a survey, this article identifies the factors that influence the planning and use of these systems in this fast-moving environment. The results clearly demonstrate that the implementation of these systems varies significantly across different national and organizational contexts, resulting in a fragmented global nuclear-detection architecture, which arguably undermines efforts to detect trafficked nuclear-threat materials. Greater consideration should therefore be given to developing international standards and guidance, designing and adopting tools to support key parts of the alarm assessment process, and broader sharing of good practice.     

船舶降噪工程技术集成优化方法

在用船舶降噪工程受总体约束强、声学异常多等因素影响,传统新船建造的声学设计方法不能被直接应用。为此,提出了在用船舶降噪工程技术集成优化方法。根据需求设计顶层降噪指标,并通过四项标准进行检验;基于改装前测试数据和降噪技术储备情况,制定初步降噪技术集成方案;通过声学评估迭代,形成优化的指标分配体系和最终的降噪技术集成方案。模型试验验证结果表明,该方法能够有效实现在用船舶降噪工程的技术优化集成。     

动态武器目标分配问题的马尔可夫性

动态武器目标分配(weapon target assignment,WTA)问题是军事运筹学研究的重要理论问题,也是作战指挥决策中迫切需要解决的现实问题。在对动态WTA问题进行描述分析的基础上,运用随机过程理论证明了动态WTA过程的马尔可夫性;给出了该马尔可夫决策过程的状态转移概率的解析表达式,并对其状态特点进行了简要分析。研究结果可以为动态WTA及相关问题的研究提供理论和方法依据。     

基于线特征的多时相遥感图像变化检测

多时相遥感图像中利用线特征可以感知道路等线形地物的变化。论文提出一种新的基于边缘特征描述的线特征变化检测算法,首先根据边缘的梯度信息得到变化边缘,并对变化边缘进行编组,形成变化边缘的直线支撑区域,然后通过最小二乘拟合方法从直线支撑区域中提取出变化直线。提出的线特征变化检测算法把边缘的相位和幅度信息作为变化检测的判定依据,从而避免了线的匹配与比较工作,降低了变化检测的算法复杂度,具有很强的实用性。将提出的方法用于多时相遥感图像变化检测,实验结果显示该方法的有效性。     

一种单像机对运动目标定位的新方法

运动目标的空间位置确定是光学测量的重要内容,具有十分广泛的工程应用背景。针对无目标距离信息和目标上已知控制点的单像机成像情况,通过假设目标服从某种运动规律,增加目标定位的约束信息,提出了一种单像机对运动目标定位的新方法:共线方程法。仿真计算证明了此方法的正确性和可行性。     

大气湍流引起的相位起伏对相干态量子雷达相位估计的影响

基于马赫曾德干涉仪模型并采用相位扩散主方程描述大气相位起伏效应对量子雷达的影响,给出了光场在相位扩散通道的演化过程,详细分析了大气相位起伏对相干态宇称探测量子雷达相位估计分辨率和最佳灵敏度的影响,并计算了大气相位起伏下相位估计灵敏度的Cramer-Rao极限。研究发现:相位起伏对于分辨率的影响可通过增加单个脉冲平均光子数来消除。在强相位起伏情况下,宇称探测得到最佳灵敏度会严重偏离散粒噪声极限,但是在弱相位起伏情况下,通过与Cramer-Rao极限的对比,发现宇称探测是一种准最佳探测方案。     

不确定环境下无人机区域目标搜索及载荷参数影响

针对不确定环境下无人机区域搜索问题,建立了实时探测更新的搜索方法,提出了机载光电载荷参数优化配置策略。建立了基于二维离散网格的无人机区域搜索模型,采用概率地图描述目标信息的实时获取与更新;引入不确定度指标、目标网格的重访和网格探测次数控制,建立搜索目标函数;建立了基于粒子群算法的搜索路径滚动优化方法;通过对任务区域平均探测时间步数和误判概率的估计分析,建立了机载光电载荷参数优化配置策略。使用蒙特卡洛方法验证了区域搜索方法的有效性和光电载荷参数配置对搜索效率、误判概率的影响。     

混响背景下基于高阶统计量的动目标检测方法

针对混响背景中的动目标检测问题,根据基阵接收数据经过波束形成与匹配滤波后的输出结果计算高阶统计量,并将其视作观测空间。基于此空间中混响和目标回波的差异,利用多ping的高阶统计量构造特征向量,计算特征向量之间的马氏距离作为混响和目标差异的量化标准,再依据最大一致条件功效检测准则选择门限检测方法。波形数据仿真与海上实录数据检验均表明该方法的检测性能优于单ping波束形成及匹配滤波方法。通过蒙特卡洛仿真获得不同信混比下的ROC曲线,与单ping检测相比,在保证虚警概率小于0.01,检测概率大于0.5的条件下,最小可检测信混比降低约6dB。     

Shaped charge penetration into high- and ultrahigh-strength Steel–Fiber reactive powder concrete targets

Experiments on shaped charge penetration into high and ultrahigh strength steel-fiber reactive powder concrete (RPC) targets were performed in this paper. Results show that the variation of penetration depth and crater diameter with concrete strength is different from that of shaped charge penetration into normal strength concrete (NSC). The crater diameter of RPC is smaller than that of NSC penetrated by the shaped charge. The jet particles are strongly disturbed and hardly reach the crater bottom because they pass through the narrow channel formed by jet penetration into the RPC. The effects of radial drift velocity and gap effects of jet particles for a shaped charge penetration into RPC target are discussed. Moreover, a theoretical model is presented to describe the penetration of shaped charge into RPC target. As the concrete strength increases, the penetration resistance increases and the entrance crater diameter decreases. Given the drift velocity and narrow crater channel, the low-velocity jet particles can hardly reach the crater bottom to increase the penetration depth. Moreover, the narrow channel has a stronger interference to the jet particles with increasing concrete strength; hence, the gap effects must be considered. The drift velocity and gap effects, which are the same as penetration resistance, also have significant effects during the process of shaped charge penetration into ultrahigh-strength concrete. The crater profiles are calculated through a theoretical model, and the results are in good agreement with the experiments.     

被掩护地面固定目标不受空中打击分析

重点分析了被掩护地面固定目标不受空中打击的相关因素,并定量地分析了敌空袭兵器攻击地面被掩护目标时所需的数量,从而为地面防空建立最佳的防空部署提供依据。因为防空兵群对空袭兵器的射击次数与防空兵群的杀伤区面积成线性关系,所以在探讨如何部署防空兵力时,以防空兵群的杀伤区面积为准则来建立线性规划模型。