A HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICS-BASED VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT FOR TERMITE ACTIVITY TARGETING

Juan José González de la Rosa, José Melgar Camarero, Stephane Bouaud, J. G. Ramiro, Antonio Moreno Muñoz

2008

Abstract

In this paper we present the operation results of a portable computer-based measurement equipment conceived to perform non-destructive testing of suspicious termite infestations. Its signal processing module is based in the spectral kurtosis (SK), with the de-noising complement of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The SK pattern allows the targeting of alarms and activity signals. The DWT complements the SK, by keeping the successive approximations of the termite emissions, supposed more non-gaussian (less noisy) and with less entropy than the detail approximations. For a given mother wavelet, the maximum acceptable level, in the wavelet decomposition tree, which preserves the insects’ emissions features, depends on the comparative evolution of the approximations details’ entropies, and the value of the global spectral kurtosis associated to the approximation of the separated signals. The paper explains the detection criterion by showing different types of real-life recordings (alarms, activity, and background).

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José González de la Rosa J., Melgar Camarero J., Bouaud S., G. Ramiro J. and Moreno Muñoz A. (2008). A HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICS-BASED VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT FOR TERMITE ACTIVITY TARGETING . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8111-32-6, pages 155-162. DOI: 10.5220/0001493701550162


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@conference{icinco08,
author={Juan José González de la Rosa and José Melgar Camarero and Stephane Bouaud and J. G. Ramiro and Antonio Moreno Muñoz},
title={A HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICS-BASED VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT FOR TERMITE ACTIVITY TARGETING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,},
year={2008},
pages={155-162},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001493701550162},
isbn={978-989-8111-32-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,
TI - A HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICS-BASED VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT FOR TERMITE ACTIVITY TARGETING
SN - 978-989-8111-32-6
AU - José González de la Rosa J.
AU - Melgar Camarero J.
AU - Bouaud S.
AU - G. Ramiro J.
AU - Moreno Muñoz A.
PY - 2008
SP - 155
EP - 162
DO - 10.5220/0001493701550162