An experimental study on antipersonnel landmine detection using acoustic-to-seismic coupling

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1333-1341

  Xiang, Ning ^a   Sabatier, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY; SOILS;

LANDMINE DETECTION;

ACOUSTICS;

SEISMIC METHOD;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER; LASER FLOWMETER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOIL; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SURFACE SOIL; VIBRATION; WEATHERING; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 0037337881     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1543554     Document Type: Article

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