Metal detectors in civil engineering and humanitarian de-mining: Overview and tests of a commercial visualizing system

Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 89-97

  Bruschini, Claudio ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); IMAGING TECHNIQUES; VISUALIZATION;

HUMANITARIAN DEMINING;

METAL DETECTORS;

EID: 0033881087     PISSN: 13542575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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