Terahertz/millimeter wave characterizations of soils for mine detection: Transmission and scattering

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5790, Issue , 2005, Pages 66-73

  Du Bosq, Todd W ^a   Peale, Robert E ^a   Weeks, Arthur ^a   Grantham, Jeffery ^b   Dillery, Daniel ^b   Lee, Don ^b   Muh, David ^b   Boreman, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Index matching; Landmine detection; Millimeter waves; Soils; Terahertz; Transmission

Indexed keywords

INDEX MATCHING; LANDMINE DETECTION; TERAHERTZ; TRANSMISSION;

EXPLOSIVES; LIGHT SCATTERING; MILLIMETER WAVES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SOILS; VECTORS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 26844561263     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.604415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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