A SNP-BASED, HIGH-THROUGHPUT, LOW-COST GENOTYPING METHOD

Not Available Recent advances in the development of small very low-power infrared sensors (i.e. the UL3 camera developed by Indigo Systems Corporation) are having a growing impact on area surveillance and protection strategies for military and commercial users. It is now realizable for these micro-sensors to be used in a widely distributed network for providing contiguous day/night visual surveillance of very large areas. Highly optimized systems will most likely involve the integration of extremely low-power acoustic, seismic, and/or passive IR motion sensors as trigger mechanisms for imaging components in the surveillance network. Additionally, the imaging components themselves may employ extreme low-power modes involving reduced frame rates and on-board motion detection. The work completed under Phase I of this proposal will demonstrate the feasibility of such a system. A trade study will be performed to analyze the requirements of various surveillance scenarios. The results will be used to develop an appropriate system architecture and preliminary system design. In addition, a prototype UL3 infrared camera will be fabricated and tested as part of Phase I. The proposed Phase I Option is to fabricate the hardware demonstration system designed in Phase I. The UL3 camera will be integrated with a data compressor/decompressor (CODEC), spread-spectrum transmitter/receiver, and remote monitoring station. This system will demonstrate the compressed image quality and transmission perform