Detectability of surface-laid landmines with a polarimetric IR sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5089, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 505-516

  Cremer, Frank ^a,b   De Jong, Wim ^a   Schutte, Klamer ^a   Liao, Wen Jiao ^c   Baertlein, Brian A ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

BRDF; Landmine detection; Modelling; Polarimetric infrared

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL SENSORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADIATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LANDMINES;

AMMUNITION;

EID: 0242719834     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.487822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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