Nonlinear detection of land mines using wide band width time-reversal techniques

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6217 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sutin, Alexander ^a,c   Libbey, Brad ^b   Kurtenoks, Victor ^a   Fenneman, Douglas ^b   Sarvazyan, Armen ^a  

^a ARTANN Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

^c STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Land mine detection; Nonlinear acoustics; Time Reversal Acoustics

Indexed keywords

LAND MINE DETECTION; NONLINEAR ACOUSTICS; PHASE INVERSION METHOD; TIME REVERSAL ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; BANDWIDTH; BROADCASTING; DOPPLER EFFECT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOILS; TRANSDUCERS;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 33747350990     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.673714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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