Forensic GPR: Finite-difference simulations of responses from buried human remains

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 171-186

  Hammon III, William S ^a   McMechan, George A ^a   Zeng, Xiaoxian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference modeling; Forensic; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Human remains

Indexed keywords

CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HUMAN REMAINS; NON DESTRUCTIVE FORENSIC SITE INVESTIGATION;

RADAR;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; SITE INVESTIGATION;

EID: 0034305431     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-9851(00)00027-6     Document Type: Article

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