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Spatially-aware temporal anomaly mapping of gamma spectra

Reinhart et al., 2014

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627946686183018931
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Reinhart A
Athey A
Biegalski S
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

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For security, environmental, and regulatory purposes it is useful to continuously monitor wide areas for unexpected changes in radioactivity. We report on a temporal anomaly detection algorithm which uses mobile detectors to build a spatial map of background …
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