TY - JOUR 
A1 - González Castaño, Francisco Javier
AU - Vales Alonso, Javier
AU - Costa Montenegro, Enrique
AU - López Matencio Pérez, Pablo Antonio
AU - Vicente Carrasco, Francisco
AU - Parrado García, Francisco Javier
AU - Gil Castiñeira, Felipe
AU - Costas Rodríguez, Sergio
T1 - Acoustic sensor planning for gunshot location in national parks: a pareto front approach
Y1 - 2009
SN - 1424-8220
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/1630
AB - In this paper, we propose a solution for gunshot location in national parks. In Spain
there are agencies such as SEPRONA that fight against poaching with considerable success.
The DiANa project, which is endorsed by Caba˜neros National Park and the SEPRONA
service, proposes a system to automatically detect and locate gunshots. This work presents
its technical aspects related to network design and planning. The system consists of a
network of acoustic sensors that locate gunshots by hyperbolic multi-lateration estimation.
The differences in sound time arrivals allow the computation of a low error estimator of
gunshot location. The accuracy of this method depends on tight sensor clock synchronization,
which an ad-hoc time synchronization protocol provides. On the other hand, since the areas
under surveillance are wide, and electric power is scarce, it is necessary to maximize detection
coverage and minimize system cost at the same time. Therefore, sensor network planning has
two targets, i.e., coverage and cost. We model planning as an unconstrained problem with two
objective functions. We determine a set of candidate solutions of interest by combining a derivative-free descent method we have recently proposed with a Pareto front approach. The
results are clearly superior to random seeding in a realistic simulation scenario.
KW - Ingeniería Telemática
KW - Detección acústica
KW - Ubicación del sonido
KW - Sensor de sincronización
KW - Sensor de planificación de la red
KW - Optimización de derivados libres
KW - Pareto frontal
KW - Acoustic sensing
KW - Sound location
KW - Sensor synchronization
KW - Sensor network planning
KW - Derivative-free optimization
KW - Pareto front
LA - eng
PB - MDPI AG
ER -