Thermal analysis of buried land mines over a diurnal cycle

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 461-473

  Khanafer, Khalil ^a   Vafai, Kambiz ^b  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried mines; False alarm mine spots; Infrared imagining signature; Shallow and moderate depth mine; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINE EXPLOSIONS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMOANALYSIS;

BURIED LANDMINE DETECTION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0036476998     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.992811     Document Type: Article

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