An optical fibre distributed sensor based on pattern recognition

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-30

  Lyons, W B ^a   Ewald, H ^b   Lewis, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Hochschule Wismar   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Optical fibre sensor; OTDR; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OTDR);

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0037144742     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(02)00160-7     Document Type: Article

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