Planetary exploration using a small electromagnetic sensor

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1499-1506

  Huang, Haoping ^a   SanFilipo, Bill ^a   Won, I J ^a  

^a Geophex Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Susceptibility and resistivity mapping; Vertical coaxial electromagnetic sensor

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAUNCHING; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MINERAL RESOURCES; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR (DSP); GRAVITY METHOD; RESISTIVITY MAPPING; ROVER MISSION; VERTICAL COAXIAL ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSOR;

SENSORS;

EID: 23844496170     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.846862     Document Type: Article

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