Effect of ground variability on clutter and false alarm in landmine detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5415, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 156-166

  Fokina, Margarita S ^a   Fokin, Vladimir N ^a   Sabatier, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutter; False alarm; Land mine detection; Natural ground variability

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ELASTICITY; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VISCOELASTICITY;

CLUTTER; FALSE ALARM; LANDMINE DETECTION; NATURAL GROUND VARIABILITY;

MINES;

EID: 10044268791     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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