Accession Number:

AD0837100

Title:

THE USE OF ARTHROPODS AS PERSONNEL DETECTORS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY LAND WARFARE LAB ABERDEEN PROVINGGROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Barnhart, Clyde S., Sr

Report Date:

1968-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

16.0

Abstract:

The problem of detecting people in hiding from a distance is central to developing reliably effective methods of countering ambushes in military operations. Techniques that depend upon detection of airborne human effluents are among those that have been considered. Another possibility is that insects that are normally attracted to people may be utilized as biosensors in a sensitive and reliable personnel detector.

Descriptors:

• *HUMANS
• *WARNING SYSTEMS
• *ARTHROPODA
• MILITARY OPERATIONS
• PORTABLE EQUIPMENT
• DETECTION
• DETECTORS
• NIGHT WARFARE
• FEASIBILITY STUDIES
• INSTRUMENTATION
• RESPONSE(BIOLOGY)
• CULICIDAE
• ENEMY PERSONNEL
• SIPHONAPTERA
• LICE
• ODORS

Subject Categories:

• Unconventional Warfare
• Biomedical Instrumentation and Bioengineering

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE