Feasibility of spread spectrum sensors for location of arcs on live wires

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1445-1449

  Furse, Cynthia ^a,b,c,e,f   Safavi, Mehdi ^a,d   Smith, Paul ^c   Lo, Chet ^a,b,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c LiveWire Test Labs Inc   (United States)

^d BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f Electrical and Computer Engineering Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Reflectometry; Spread spectrum; Wire fault locations

Indexed keywords

FEASIBILITY; REFLECTOMETRY; SPREAD SPECTRUM; WIRE FAULT LOCATIONS;

AIRCRAFT; ELECTRIC WIRE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); REFLECTOMETERS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS;

SENSORS;

EID: 29044449963     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2005.858900     Document Type: Article

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