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Chemical Plume Tracing By Discrete Fourier Analysis And Particle Swarm Optimization, Eugene Jun Jie Neo, Eldin Wee Chuan Lim

Australian Security and Intelligence Conference

A novel methodology for solving the chemical plume tracing problem that utilizes data from a network of stationary sensors has been developed in this study. During a toxic chemical release and dispersion incident, the imperative need of first responders is to determine the physical location of the source of chemical release in the shortest possible time. However, the chemical plume that develops from the source of release may evolve into a highly complex distribution over the entire contaminated region, making chemical plume tracing one of the most challenging problems known to date. In this study, the discrete Fourier series method …