An investigation of surface-contacting sensors for the seismic detection of buried landmines

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2676-2685

  Martin, J S ^a   Larson, G D ^a   Scott Jr , W R ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; INCLUSIONS; MINES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BURIED LANDMINES; GROUND MOTION; NONCONTACT SENSORS; SEISMIC LANDMINE-DETECTION SYSTEM;

SENSORS;

EXPLOSIVE;

ACCELEROMETER; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33750342453     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2345911     Document Type: Article

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