A gray-code-based fiber optic liquid level transducer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 174-178

  Betta, Giovanni ^a,b   Pietrosanto, Antonio ^c   Scaglione, Antonio ^c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liquid level measurement; Optical fiber transducer; Petroleum industry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; TRANSDUCERS;

OPTIC FIBER TRANSDUCERS;

LIQUID LEVEL INDICATORS;

EID: 0031988313     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.728813     Document Type: Article

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