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1. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SURVEILLANCE OF ILLICIT TRAFFICKING OF SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS, of the type designed to implement a monitoring process in an area with traffic of people or vehicles which could carry potentially dangerous special nuclear materials (SNM) such as uranium or plutonium and reducing its false alarms rate, presenting the capability to measure the degree of linear dependency between the measured radiation profile and a different profile synthesized from the same measured data, using for this measurement the radiation count rate as well as the MO-detector distance, for which manual pointing is required, characterized because it is used in combination: a radiation detector firmly attached to a digital telemeter for measuring the MO-detector distance and added to the standard components of the prior art (high voltage power supply, preamplifier, amplifier and signal conditioner), a spectrometer for classifying the radiation pulses, distributing them in different energy windows and a shadow shielding compensator that calculates the spectral distance of each sample; a reference radiation profile synthesizer which calculates the ideal radiation profile that would be produced by the MO if he were carrying NMS with a radiation level equivalent to the measured; a correlation coefficient calculator for calculating the Pearson correlation coefficient between the measured and the estimated profile, a comparator device for comparing the values of the obtained coefficient with the alarm reference threshold; a correlation alarm threshold calculator for calculating the alarm threshold based on the amount of acquired data; a decision logic for determining the existence of an alarm condition; a control unit for coordinating the operation of all the units in the system and an operator interface for configuration of the whole system by the operator, determining its operating mode and the display of the alarm conditions. |