Land mine detection in bare soils using thermal infrared sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4742, Issue I, 2002, Pages 43-50

  Hong, Sung Ho ^a   Miller, Timothy W ^a   Borchers, Brian ^a   Hendrickx, Jan M H ^a   Lensen, Henk A ^b   Schwering, Piet B W ^b   Van den Broek, Sebastiaan P ^b  

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

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Detection; Landmines; Test facility; Thermal infrared; Thermal signature

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; METAL DETECTORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; SOILS;

INFRARED SENSORS;

MINES;

EID: 0036442622     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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