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K9 Detection ScentKits Benefits
If scientists collaborate comprehensively with K9 trainers in the use of
ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKits, the technology involved can be applied not only to
benefit society, but also to benefit mankind through a better understanding of
K9s. Some of the benefits of using ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKits are as follows:
Expands training opportunities into
other creatures and terrains
ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKit for Explosives and Narcotics
Detection provides such a broadband scent signature of primary
odor components that it is also appropriate for the training
of other terrestrial creatures with good olfactory sensitivity
and search-and-detect-capability. Such creatures can include
those with olfactory configurations comparable to K9's - such
as beavers, to those with completely different olfactory
configurations - such as bees. It can also be applied towards
the training of aquatic creatures innately endowed with superb
olfactory capabilities, in the detection of chemicals within
water. ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKit for Explosives and Narcotics
Detection can also be configured for training aquatic
creatures with search-and-detect potentials such as the
catfish, great white shark, and dolphins, to detect the
presence of chemical materials present within water bodies.
Such chemicals might range from explosives to chemical
pollutants…even shipwrecks.
Train on one scent, detect many types
of explosives
Most explosive compositions used as explosives normally
consist of a combination of two or more explosive compounds.
Due to the formulation of ScentLogix™ K9 scents, a K9 trained
on one type of ScentLogix Imprint Aid will be able to detect
the presence of that explosive within any multicomponent
explosive composition. Thus by simply training your K9 on
ScentLogix™ K9 TNT ScentKit your K9 will detect all the
explosive compositions that contain TNT as a main component.
This expands the range of detectable chemical explosives to
over 100 different kinds of explosive configurations from all
over the world. Please click here for some of the explosives
within the extended range of explosive compositions covered by
ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKit for Explosives and Narcotics
Detection.
Introduces new paradigms to
scent-detection science
ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKit for Explosives
Detection is the world's first tool for K9 detection that
enables the development of standards and theories that can
be used to qualify degrees of K9 efficiency at different
detection levels, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Up until now, trainers have imprinted k9s with materials
which even they do not know what the K9 are supposed to
smell, so, how can we expect K9's to know? ScentLogix™ K9
ScentKit for Explosives Detection Imprint Aids provide a
consistent scent signature that will allow K9 to quickly
figure out what it is they have to smell. Also, the
evaluation aids provided within each ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKit
for Explosives Detection provides the trainer with a
quantitative way to ensure that imprinting of all the
components of the ScentLogix™ K9 Scent Imprint Aid have been
learnt by the K9 and not just components assumed by the K9.
These unique properties puts the training process, at last,
in the hands of the trainer, as the trainer now has tools to
measure the success of his training program., can prove that
the K9 has learnt and what needs to be learnt. Furthermore
the trainers also has the tools to asses and certify the
competence of K9s from other training centers, since as
Evaluation Aids can also be used for measuring the extent of
scent signature recognition by a trained K9. With ScentLogix™
K9 ScentKit for Explosives Detection as a training tool, the
art of biological detection becomes a real science, and
advances in K9 detection can start to benefit from the
amalgamated activities of people from different fields of
science.
Enables effective training in a variety
of climatic conditions
The nanotechnology based process used in the manufacture of
ScentLogix™ K9 series of ScentKits for Explosives and
Narcotics Detection ScentLogix ensures the appropriate release
of a longlasting scent signature to a research-grade level of
consistency, even within training terrains that have extreme
conditions of temperature, humidity and pressure. Our products
were tested in the hot plains of Arizona to the humid swelter
of Florida for verification of proficiency, and they all
passed with full marks! We also welcome enquires for the
production of these scents for extreme environmental
conditions.
Provides a full spectrum of explosive
detection scent markers
Looks can be deceiving! Because an
explosive material is physically available does not mean
that it has a full scent signature. The concentration and
chemical nature of scents exuding from an explosive
undergoes changes as an explosive ages. It is just like
having a fresh hamburger; when it is very fresh you could
smell the bun, the mayonnaise, and ketchup and the meat.
After a period of time the scent of the bun is lost. This is
followed by a loss of the scent of the mayonnaise, then the
ketchup, and then the meat….until the burger has practically
no scent, but the burger is still there! The question is,
"how do we know if the explosive being used for training has
a scent signature adequate for the effective training of
detector-K9's?" ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKit for Explosives and
Narcotics Detection provides detector-K9s with a consistent
scent signature, and with an unmatchable profile of scent
tendrils necessary to train a detector-K9 in maintaining an
unbroken detection trail. With the operational use of
ScentLogix ScentKits, the art of detection becomes easier
for both trainer and K9.
Allows
for realistic training within built-up and civilian environments
Due to its chemical inertness and absolute
lack of an explosive or narcotic property, ScentLogix™ K9
ScentKits are not classified as explosives or narcotics and
can be transported, handled and stored in the same ways as
fragrances. Furthermore, the scent signatures within the
ScentKits are completely free of odors that overlap with
common consumer products to allow the training of dogs to be
more selective, precise and less excitable when deployed in
civilian settings. Thus, ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKits can be
used with no restrictions in civilian environments and
built-up areas to generate more realistic training
scenarios.
Will train K9’s to detect all explosive
weight equivalents
There has been a common mistake-of-thinking that there is a
direct correlation between the physical weights of an
explosive, to its scent. This correlation is not quite
straightforward, for when dealing with the property of scent,
other factors such as the vapor pressure of the components
within the material and the surface area provided by the
material for its constituent volatiles are more important
variables of the material than the weight of the material. One
very important variable pertains to the amount of volatile
materials within th explosive material. Due to the binary or
multi component nature of explosives, most explosives end up
with a scent signature comprising of different volatile
organic compounds. It is the ratio and intensity of these
components within the scent signature of an explosive that is
the scent equivalent to differences in weight.
In some instances, the mass of an explosive composition can be
so large that the scent(s) of its most volatile component(s)
become so overwhelming to a K9's olfactory processes that it
becomes desensitized itself to the perception of scent(s). At
this level of scent saturation, the low volatile components
become the significant explosive markers for detection, as
their concentration will now be within the limits of the
olfactory threshold of canines, and will provide the scent
cone that the K9 will eventually use to seek the detect the
explosive. Since each ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKit contains a scent
signature that covers the scent of both low and high weight
amounts of explosives, the actual weight of ScentLogix™
explosive imprint material used becomes insignificant, as it
has the scent quality and profile representative of all
weights of an explosive. The use of ScentLogix™ K9 ScentKits
for Explosives and Narcotics Detection within a canine
training program will lead to the generation of k9s that have
been trained on the range of scent tendrils needed to maintain
an unbroken detection trail.
Reduces False Alerts
While a human may smell hamburgers at Burger King, a K9
will smell the components of the hamburger. So, it will smell
bread, pickles, onions, meat and mayo. However, it will also
smell cleaning fluids, volatiles from the hot plastic food
packaging, the scent of the person who handled the food, etc.
The Scent signature within every ScentLogix ScentKit Imprint
Aid has been cleaned up, or "scrubbed," to produce an imprint
aid free of scents that overlap with common consumer products.
These allows the training of dogs that can be freely used in
civilian settings as they will be less excitable when exposed
to these odors within the hustle-and-bustle of
litigation-prone a civilian setting and produce less false
alerts. ScentLogix Imprint Aids can also be specifically
tailored to modify and/or reinforce aspects of K9 behaviour
and to compliment research and developmental efforts in the
olfactory and behavioral sciences.
Available in both parent odor and
surrogate odor configurations
In addition to the formulation of scent signatures using
primary odors, we are also the world's experts in the
formation of structural equivalents of explosive materials
that are "non-explosive but odoriferously identical." These
surrogate odors can be used within a biological detection
training program or as pseudoscents within R&D activities
pertaining to olfaction science. Furthermore, this know-how
can be extended to the development of scents for materials
such as narcotics, that are non-physiologically modifying but
odoriferously identical.
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