Noncontacting determination of moisture content in bulk materials using sub-nanosecond UWB pulses

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 6 II, 2005, Pages 2107-2112

  Schimmer, Ove ^a   Gülck, Alexander ^a   Daschner, Frank ^a   Piotrowski, Jerzy K ^b   Knöchel, Reinhard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks (ANNs); Moisture determination; Multivariate calibration; Time domain measurements; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; HORN ANTENNAS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MULTIVARIATE CALIBRATION; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE (RMS); TIME-DOMAIN MEASUREMENTS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

MOISTURE;

EID: 23144444778     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.848765     Document Type: Conference Paper

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