Electrical impedance tomographic imaging of buried landmines

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2407-2420

  Church, Philip ^a,b   McFee, John Elton ^c   Gagnon, Stephane ^b   Wort, Philip ^d  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b Neptec Design Group Ltd   (Canada)

^c DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d General Dynamics Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conductivity measurement; Impedance imaging; Impedance tomography; Object detection; Soil; Underwater object detection

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; IMPEDANCE IMAGING; IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; OBJECT DETECTION; UNDERWATER OBJECT DETECTION;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MINES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOILS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748290241     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.873208     Document Type: Article

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