Surface landmine and trip wire detection using calibrated polarization measurements in the LWIR and SWIR

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4491, Issue , 2001, Pages 41-51

  Forssell, Göran ^a  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Infrared; Landmine detection; Polarization; Thermovision 900; Trip wire

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

DEGREE OF LINEAR POLARIZATION; INVERSE RADON TRANSFORM; LANDMINE; RADON TRANSFORM; STOKE PARAMETERS; TRIP WIRE;

METAL DETECTORS;

EID: 0035767562     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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