A preliminary investigation of the effects of soil electromagnetic properties on metal detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5415, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 677-690

  Das, Y ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Humanitarian demining; Landmine detection; Soil electrical conductivity; Soil electromagnetic properties; Soil magnetic susceptibility; World soil database

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MINES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SOILS;

HUMANITARIAN DEMINING; LANDMINE DETECTION; SOIL ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SOIL MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; WORLD SOIL DATABASE;

METAL DETECTORS;

EID: 10044241920     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.541364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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