thereof such electric field line distortion is used by the present invention to provide detection means and also may in some embodiments of the present invention be used as an electrostatic signature for identification of objects in addition in some embodiments of the present invention such electrostatic signatures are electronically stored in a database or similar electronic repository and may be used to improve the accuracy of the identification techniques of the present invention and the various embddiments described and envisioned herein now shown in fig5 there is shown in top view an area 505 to be electrostatically imaged or monitored fig5 depicts electrostatic excitation node points 501 on the left hand side and electrostatic sensing node points 503 on the right hand side further as shown previously in fig4 also shown are people within said area 505 to be electrostatically imaged or monitored with reference now to fig6 there is illustrated schematically the operating control and processing system of the present invention illustrated are a multiplicity of electrostatic excitation nodes e 39 s their electrostatic drive system e drive 601 controller ctrl 605 a multiplicity of electrostatic sensing nodes s 39 s electrostatic sensing acquisition system s acq 603 processing and.