Acoustic scattering by buried objects in a rigid porous material

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4394, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 595-606

  Velea, Doru ^a   Hickey, Craig ^a   Sabatier, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; Landmine detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

LANDMINE DETECTION;

MINES;

EID: 0035758558     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.445512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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