Scanning seismic intrusion detection method and apparatus
Abstract
An intrusion monitoring system includes an array of seismic sensors, such as geophones, arranged along a perimeter to be monitored for unauthorized intrusion as by surface movement or tunneling. Two wires lead from each sensor to a central monitoring station. The central monitoring station has three modes of operation. In a first mode of operation, the output of all of the seismic sensors is summed into a receiver for amplification and detection. When the amplitude of the summed signals exceeds a certain predetermined threshold value an alarm is sounded. In a second mode of operation, the individual output signals from the sensors are multiplexed into the receiver for sequentially interrogating each of the sensors.
- Publication:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Report
- Pub Date:
- February 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983nasa.reptV....L
- Keywords:
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- Monitors;
- Scanners;
- Security;
- Seismographs;
- Tunneling (Excavation);
- Warning Systems;
- Automatic Gain Control;
- Intrusion;
- Multiplexing;
- Patents;
- Signal Analysis;
- Transducers;
- Instrumentation and Photography