The “System of Systems” is the combination of the CTX 9000 DSi™ (or CTX 9400 DSi™) and XRD 3500™ Explosives Detection Systems (EDS) providing airport security systems with comprehensive explosive material screening at unparalleled levels of detection and achieving operational benefits for security professionals and passengers.

The “System of Systems” uses specially developed Morpho Detection software and algo-rithms. Based on a scan from Morpho Detection’s CTX 9000 series CT-based EDS and the XRD 3500 scanner uses X-ray diffraction technology to perform targeted analysis only on a specific region of interest within a suspect piece of checked-luggage.

The combined system is designed to clear as many of the alarms from the CTX 9000 series machines in an automated fashion as possible, thus reducing operational expens-es. The remaining small number of bags that cannot be cleared by an XRD 3500 could be directed to the airport Baggage Inspection Room (BIR) for manual inspection.

Benefits

• Fully automatic EDS at highest security level

• Reducessignificantlythenumberofbagsrequiringmanualinspectionfromapreviousscreening step, thus reducing staff and costs at the same time

• Reducespassengerreconciliationsignificantly,thusincreasingpassengersatisfaction

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Fully Automatic Detection. Fully Integrated Solution.

In an integrated environment, bags are automatically con-veyed from the CTX 9000 series to the XRD 3500 via the Baggage Handling System (BHS). Fully automatic inspection determines whether the bag needs a further inspection or can be sent to the airplane.

The XRD 3500 offers the additional capability of localized screening to inspect areas of bags that have been identified as suspicious by the CTX 9000 series EDS. The XRD 3500 usesalarmlocationdata,acquiredfrombagimagescol-lected by the CTX positioned earlier in the BHS, to focus on a subsection of the bag. This ability to focus on a limited threat area greatly increases the throughput of the XRD system. The XRD 3500 is designed to resolve alarms from other explosives detection systems without depending on operators and other time-consuming procedures, resulting in a significant increase in overall detection, reduced pro-cessing times for passenger baggage, and potentially sig-nificant reduction in operating costs.

Localized Screening

After feeding the bag to the XRD 3500, the Prescanner takes a conventional X-ray image of the incoming bag. It defines the position of the bag on the internal conveyor, and matches the alignment to ensure the correct region of interest is inspected. To find the previously defined threat area in the bag, special parameters and algorithms are used. This pat-ented bag registration provides a coordinated hand-shake between the CTX and the XRD scanners. Matching the bag’s “handshake” is necessary since a bag may twist or flip on its way from the CTX to the XRD.

The coordinates of the threat region are then communicated to the XRD scanner to inspect the target areas using diffrac-tion technology. If for some reason the threat region cannot be clearly identified, the XRD automatically switches to a full scan of the bag.

Morpho DetectionTel: +49 (0) 40 82315 555 Fax: +49 (0) 40 82315 170 www.morphodetection.comHeselstücken 3, 22453 Hamburg, Germany

HIGHEST DETECTION WITH LOWEST FALSE ALARM RATE System of Systems