An Engineer Does the Math So Troops in Iraq Can Find Bombs

From washingtonpost.com - Technology:

J oshua R. Fairley is stationed in Vicksburg, Miss. -- and helping fight the war in Iraq. Fairley, an electrical engineer at the Army's Engineer Research and Development Center, developed a method for improving the detection of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, improving the accuracy of sensor systems by 75 percent. He's one of the young stars in the Defense Department's effort to harness computers and airborne sensors to find bombs and mines on and off the roads of Iraq. "What we are trying to do in our work is to inform our commanders on what are the most optimal sensors to use, given the environment, weather conditions and time of day, that would lend itself to the best opportunity to detect that kind of threat," he said.

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