Soil effects on thermal signatures of buried nonmetallic landmines

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5089, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1210-1218

  Van Dam, Remke L ^a   Borchers, Brian ^a   Hendrickx, Jan M H ^a   Hong, Sung Ho ^a  

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

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; INFRARED IMAGING; PHASE SHIFT; SOIL MECHANICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEST FACILITIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

LANDMINE DETECTION; THERMAL SIGNATURE;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 0242460281     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.487205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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