Soil moisture distribution around land mines and the effect on relative permittivity

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4742, Issue I, 2002, Pages 269-280

  Rhebergen, Jan B ^a   Lensen, Henk A ^a   Schwering, Piet B W ^a   Marín, Garciela Rodríguez ^b   Hendrickx, Jan M H ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti personnel mine; Anti tank mine; Dielectric constant; GPR; Ground penetrating radar; Mine detection; Modelling; Relative permittivity; Soil water distribution; Test facility

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MOISTURE; PERMITTIVITY; SOILS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

LAND MINES;

MINES;

EID: 0036438618     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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