Stand-off detection of surface contaminations with explosives residues using laser-spectroscopic methods

NATO Security through Science Series B: Physics and Biophysics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 89-99

  Noll, Reinhard ^a   Fricke Begemann, Cord ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Explosives detection; Laser spectroscopy; Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy; LIBS Raman combination; Raman spectroscopy; Remote LIBS; Stand off detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749522349     PISSN: 1871465X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5159-X_12     Document Type: Article

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