Investigation of broadband electromagnetic induction scattering by highly conductive, permeable, arbitrarily shaped 3-D objects

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 540-556

  Shubitidze, Fridon ^a   O'Neill, Kevin ^a,b   Sun, Keli ^a   Paulsen, Keith D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried objects; Detection; Discrimination; Electromagnetic induction; Metal; Method of auxiliary sources; Permeable; Scattering; Unexploded ordinance (UXO)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; LOOP ANTENNAS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POISSON EQUATION;

BURIED METALLIC OBJECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; MAGNETIC CURRENT; MAGNETO-QUASI-STATIC; THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 1842481564     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.821699     Document Type: Article

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