Specific NIST Projects in Support of the NIJ Concealed Weapon Detection and Imaging Program

Published

November 1, 1998

Author(s)

Nicholas G. Paulter Jr.

Abstract

The Electricity Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing revised performance standards for hand-held (HH) and walk-through (WT) metal weapon detectors, test procedures and systems for these detectors, and a detection/imaging system for finding concealed weapons. The revised standards will replace the existing National Institute of Justice (NIJ) standards for HH and WT devices and will include detection performance specifications as well as system specifications (environmental conditions, mechanical strength and safety, response reproducibility and repeatability, quality assurance, test reporting, etc.). These system requirements were obtained from an advisory council for the NIJ, the Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Advisory Council. Reproducible and repeatable test procedures and appropriate measurement systems will be developed for evaluating HH and WT detection performance. A guide to the technology and application of non-eddy-current-based detection/imaging methods (such as acoustic, passive millimeter-wave and microwave, active millimeter-wave and terahertz-wave, x-ray, etc.) will be developed. The Electricity Division is also researching the development of a high-frequency/high-speed (300 GHz to 1 THz) pulse-illuminated, stand-off, video-rate, concealed weapon/contraband imaging system.

Proceedings Title

Proc. Conf. on Enforcement and Security Technologies

Volume

3575

Conference Dates

November 3-5, 1998

Conference Location

Boston, MA

Conference Title

SPIE (Soc. of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers)

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

antenna-coupled microbolometer, concealed weapon imaging, Law Enforcement and Corrections, Technology Advisory Council, law enforcement

Citation

Paulter, N. (1998), Specific NIST Projects in Support of the NIJ Concealed Weapon Detection and Imaging Program, Proc. Conf. on Enforcement and Security Technologies, Boston, MA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=1076 (Accessed April 18, 2024)