Biological Scent Detectors

Scent Detection: Biological Scent Detectors

K9s are the best biological detectors operated by humans today; period. Even so, many of those in the K9 detection arena do not realize their strategic position within the future of scent detection. Most "suits" will refer to a K9 program as an old fashioned, washed way of detection soon to be supplanted by the use of high tech machines and instrumentation. Thus, K9 programs are largely underfunded and entirely ignored in the future blueprints (and budgets) ascribed for scent-based detection programs.

The final response of a K9 to a detection decision is a single human-readable yes/no “output” resulting from global interpretations of processes of a wholly-organic CPU, i.e., the brain, rather than from electronic readouts of nose cells or of images of simulated sites within the brain. Within the K9 detection phenomena lies the true technological foundation upon which the most efficient electronic search-and-detect electronically based systems can be built. This means that understandings culled from addressing K9 search and detection from a scientific standpoint, including a quantitative understanding of K9 detection program components, is crucial to the pool of "nanotechnology" know how needed for the fabrication of the best detection machines and instruments man can ever build.

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