Modeling detector response in airborne gamma-ray spectrometry

Geophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1378-1392

  Billings, Stephen ^a   Hovgaard, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Exploranium   (Canada)

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EID: 0005927105     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444643     Document Type: Article

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