These proceedings contain the presentations of a NATO-Russian - vanced Research Workshop (ARW) held at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) near Karlsruhe, Germany, attended also by most of the members of the Explosive Detection Working Group (EDWG) of the Advisory Panel on Security-Related Civil Science and Technology. The ARW, approved by the NATO Science Committee, is the ?fth NATO- Workshop during the last 3 years dealing with the detection of explosives in connection with counter-terrorism. The special goal of this workshop was the exchange of knowledge and experiences in the special ?eld of Stand-Off Detection and to ?x the State of the Art in this ?eld of research. At the end of the workshop proposals of Research & Development were presented (but not included in the proceedings), which were eva- ated by the present members of the EDWG during the following day of the workshop. One of the ?rst measures to counter the threat will be to stop the transport of illicit materials, that means in our case to detect explosive charges before they are initiated by terrorists.

Proceedings of these workshops are the only possibility to gain up to date information about the detection of explosives under conditions of terrorist actions No normal literature available about this special item Activities in this area by Russian researchers will be of special interest The proceedings of such workshops are a very suitable vehicle for international scientific cooperation in this applied R and D field A good complement to the other ARW prodeedings dealing with detection of explosives

Inhalt
Problem of Explosive Detection on Human Subjects.- MS-SRIPMicrowave System for Secret Standoff Inspection of People.- Secret Microwave Door for Inspection of People and Luggage.- Mip-Based Low-Cost Sensor for Short-Range Detection of Explosives.- Scanned Multiple (Electro-)Chemical Sensors Located at Critical Infrastructures.- Real-Time Detection of IED Explosives with Laser Ionization Mass Spectrometry.- High Speed Mid Infrared Detection of Explosives Using Laser Spectroscopy.- Remote Detection of Explosives by Enhanced Pulsed Laser Photodissociation/Laser-Induced Fluorescence Method.- Gas Analytical System of Explosive Detection for the Manual Check of Objects and Use in Walk-Through Portals.- Threat Detection DC to Daylight.- Stand-Off Detection of Concealed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS).- Stand-Off Detection of Surface Contaminations with Explosives Residues Using Laser-Spectroscopic Methods.- Distributed Trace Level Explosives Sensor Network.- Time-Resolved ExcitationEmission Matrices Spectroscopic Approach to Explosives Detection.- Mid-Infrared Lidar for Remote Detection of Explosives.- Stand-Off Detection of Explosives of Suicide Bombers by Means of Open-Path FTIR Spectroscopy.- 14N NQR Detection of Explosives.- Stand-off Explosives Detection Using Terahertz Technology.