Capability to detect biological warfare - final report

Authors:

  • Per Åke Gradmark
  • Anders Larsson
  • Fredrik Kullander
  • Per Jonsson
  • Erika Jönsson
  • Göran Olofsson
  • Torbjörn Tjärnhage
  • Pär Wästerby

Publish date: 2009-12-31

Report number: FOI-R--2911--SE

Pages: 43

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • ACPLA. Airborne Sample Analysis Platform (ASAP)
  • Biological detection
  • BWA-detection
  • C-FLAPS
  • detection
  • identification and monitoring ((DIM)
  • FLAPS
  • laser induced fluorescence (LIF)
  • laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
  • limit of detection (LOD). stand-off detection

Abstract

The report is in itself a summary of the two last year's work within the BWA-detection project Most of the activities were, however, initiated earlier. Details are in most cases reported in separate reports. This report has executive summary, in Swedish and an introduction that describes DIM and BWA-detection together with a number of other concepts in this context. The project has been emphasizing on real time detection based on physical and spectroscopic methods. During the two year period the aim has been to improve the BWA-detection capability through improvements in:  Hardware  Alarm algorithms  Test and evaluation methods  National and international networks, cooperation and tasks.