Advances in the engineering of Quadrupole Resonance landmine detection systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5794, Issue PART II, 2005, Pages 774-785

  Barrall, G A ^a   Arakawa, M ^a   Barabash, L S ^a   Bobroff, S ^a   Chepin, J F ^a   Derby, K A ^a   Drew, A J ^a   Ermolaev, K V ^a   Huo, S ^a   Lathrop, D K ^a   Steiger, M J ^a   Stewart, S H ^a   Turner, P J ^a  

^a GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Landmines; Mine detection; NQR; QR; Quadrupole resonance; RFI mitigation

Indexed keywords

LANDMINES; MINE DETECTION; NQR; QR; QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE; RFI MITIGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTRON RESONANCE; EXPLOSIVES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

SENSORS;

EID: 26844464395     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.603915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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