Monolithic folded pendulum accelerometers for seismic monitoring and active isolation systems

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 273-276

  Bertolini, Alessandro ^a,b   DeSalvo, Riccardo ^c   Fidecaro, Francesco ^a   Takamori, Akitera ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Pendulum; Tiltmeter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; DETECTORS; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PENDULUMS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

HIGH-RESOLUTION CAPACITANCE POSITION SENSOR; IN-VACUUM MECHANICAL QUALITY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; TILTMETER;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 31344435090     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.861006     Document Type: Article

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