Exploiting temperature dependency in the detection of NQR signals

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn IV, Issue , 2005, Pages 653-656

  Jakobsson, Andreas ^a   Mossberg, Magnus ^a   Rowe, Michael D ^b   Smith, John A S ^b  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MINES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LAND MINES; LEAST SQUARES DETECTOR; NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE (NQR);

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33646769999     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1416093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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