Conference proceeding
Airborne passive FT-IR spectrometry
Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.4577(1), pp.213-225
Vibrational Spectroscopy-based Sensor Systems
02/13/2002
DOI: 10.1117/12.455739
Abstract
Rapid airborne identification and quantification of vapor hazards is an environmentally important capability for a variety of open-air scenarios. This study demonstrates the use of a commercially available passive Fourier transform IR (FT-IR) spectrometer to detect, identify, and quantify ammonia and ethanol vapor signatures depending on the appropriate signal processing strategy. The signal- processing strategy removes the need for a representative background spectrum and it consists of three steps to extract the spectral information associated with the target vapor. The first step is optimal interferogram segment selection which depends on the bandwidth of the target spectral feature. The second step applies the statistically signicant finite impulse responses matrix filter to the optimal interferogram segment to attenuate spectral interferences. The third step quantifies the FIRM filter results with a discriminant analysis. The signal processing results prove that low-altitude airborne passive FT-IR spectrometry allows rapid quantitative detection of ammonia and ethanol vapor generated plumes. This effort also documents the direct interferogram analysis of data from the fast scanning airborne passive FT-IR spectrometer.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Airborne passive FT-IR spectrometry
- Creators
- Robert T Kroutil - U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Ctr. (USA)Roger J Combs - U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Ctr. (USA)Robert B Knapp - U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Ctr. (USA)Gary W Small - Ohio Univ. (USA)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.4577(1), pp.213-225
- Conference
- Vibrational Spectroscopy-based Sensor Systems
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.455739
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/13/2002
- Academic Unit
- Chemistry
- Record Identifier
- 9984216693502771
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