Table of Contents

Search and Detection, 4th edition
Alan R. Washburn
Topics in Operations Research Series

Table of Contents:

1. OPTIMAL SEARCH PATHS
1.1. Exhaustive Search of a Region
1.2. The Circle Packing Problem
1.3. Patrolling a Channel
1.4. Patrolling a Channel
1.4. Offset Circle Probabilities
1.5. Trapping Circles and Spirals
1.6. The Effect of Counter-Detection
1.7. Sprint and Drift

2. MODELS BASED ON DETECTION RATE
2.1. General Development
2.2. Random Search versus Exhaustive Search in a Fixed Region
2.3. Expanding Area Search for an Evader
2.4. The Inverse Cube Law
2.5. Search Games

3. FURTHER DETECTION MODELS
3.1. Detection Models Based on the Radar/Sonar Equation

4. LATERAL RANGE CURVES/SWEEPWIDTH
4.1. Lateral Range Curves
4.2. Sweepwidth
4.3. RelMin, an Approximation Procedure for Crooked Paths

5. EFFORT DISTRIBUTION PROBLEMS/STATIONARY TARGETS
5.1. Everett's Theorem
5.2. The General Case
5.3. Search of a Normal Prior
5.4. Myopic Search with Discrete Looks
5.5. Random Sweepwidth

6. RANDOMLY MOVING TARGETS
6.1. Dynamic Enhancement
6.2. Markov Motion -- Myopic Search
6.3. Markov Motion -- Inland Search

7. APPLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE
7.1. Tactical Decision Aids (TDAs)
7.2. Maritime Search
7.3. Inland Search

8. LOCALIZATION AND TRACKING
8.1. Confidence Regions
8.2. Least Squares Point Estimates
8.3. Normal Error Ellipses
8.4. Range Measurements
8.5. Tracking
8.6. Kalman Filtering

9. MULTIPLE TARGETS
9.1. Poisson Fields
9.2. Sweeping a Poisson Field
9.3. Mean Free Paths
9.4. Exhaustive Inspection
9.5. Finding a Particular Target

10. FALSE ALARMS AND FALSE TARGETS
10.1. Single Look for a Known Signal in Additive Gaussian Noise
10.2. Multiple Looks for a Known Signal
10.3. Multiple Looks for an Unknown Signal
10.4. Optimization of the Detection Threshold
10.5. Optimal Search in the Presence of False Targets
10.6. Operational False Alarms and Cascaded Detection Systems

11. THE STATISTICAL PROBLEM OF TRUNCATED TRIALS
11.1. The Reduced Sample (RS) Estimate
11.2. The Product Limit (PL) Estimate
11.3. The Case of No CPA Records
11.4. Hypothesis Testing