Effects of soil electromagnetic properties on metal detectors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1444-1453

  Das, Yogadhish ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Humanitarian demining; Landmine detection; Soil electrical conductivity; Soil electromagnetic properties; Soil magnetic susceptibility; World soil database

Indexed keywords

HUMANITARIAN DEMINING; LANDMINE DETECTION; LANDMINES; SOIL ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SOIL MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; METAL DETECTORS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

SOILS;

EID: 33744764939     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.870401     Document Type: Article

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