Trace explosives detection for finding land mines

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3392, Issue , 1998, Pages 441-452

  Désilets, Sylvain ^a   Haley, Lawrence V ^b   Thekkadath, Govindanunny ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

^b CPAD Technologies Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis; Explosive; Explosive detector; Gas detectors; Ion mobility; Mine detection; Soil; Soil analyzer; Trace explosive; Trace explosive detection

Indexed keywords

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); GAS DETECTORS; IONS; MINES; NITRATION; POLLUTION; REMEDIATION; SOILS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS; EXPLOSIVE DETECTOR; ION MOBILITY; MINE DETECTION; TRACE EXPLOSIVE; TRACE EXPLOSIVE DETECTION;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 0242597406     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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