Optimal Imaging for Treaty Verification

Brubaker, Erik; Hilton, Nathan R.; Johnson, William; Marleau, Peter; Kupinski, Matthew; MacGahan, Christopher Jonathan

doi:10.2172/1172782

Title: Optimal Imaging for Treaty Verification

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Future arms control treaty verification regimes may use radiation imaging measurements to confirm and track nuclear warheads or other treaty accountable items (TAIs). This project leverages advanced inference methods developed for medical and adaptive imaging to improve task performance in arms control applications. Additionally, we seek a method to acquire and analyze imaging data of declared TAIs without creating an image of those objects or otherwise storing or revealing any classified information. Such a method would avoid the use of classified-information barriers (IB).

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Brubaker, Erik ^[1]; Hilton, Nathan R. ^[1]; Johnson, William ^[1]; Marleau, Peter ^[1]; Kupinski, Matthew ^[2]; MacGahan, Christopher Jonathan ^[2]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

Research Org.:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

OSTI Identifier:: 1172782

Report Number(s):: SAND2014-18229R
537847

DOE Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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                    Brubaker, Erik, Hilton, Nathan R., Johnson, William, Marleau, Peter, Kupinski, Matthew, and MacGahan, Christopher Jonathan. Optimal Imaging for Treaty Verification.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Brubaker, Erik, Hilton, Nathan R., Johnson, William, Marleau, Peter, Kupinski, Matthew, & MacGahan, Christopher Jonathan. Optimal Imaging for Treaty Verification.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/1172782

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                    Brubaker, Erik, Hilton, Nathan R., Johnson, William, Marleau, Peter, Kupinski, Matthew, and MacGahan, Christopher Jonathan. 2014.  
        "Optimal Imaging for Treaty Verification".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/1172782.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1172782.

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