The impact of weighted density distribution function features on landmine detection using hand-held units

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4742, Issue II, 2002, Pages 892-902

  Stanley, R J ^a   Somanchi, Satish ^a   Gader, Paul ^b  

^a Emerson Electric   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic induction; Ground penetrating radar; Landmine detection; Metal detector

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; METAL DETECTORS;

LAND MINES;

MINES;

EID: 0036438950     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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