Liquid and moisture sensing by ultra-wideband pseudo-noise sequence signals

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1074-1087

  Sachs, J ^a   Peyerl, P ^b   Wockel S ^a   Kmec, M ^a   Herrmann, R ^a   Zetik, R ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Ortung und Datenverarbeitung GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Error model; M sequence; Moisture sensing; Pseudo noise signal; TDR; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ERROR MODELS; MOISTURE SENSING; PSEUDO NOISE SIGNAL; ULTRA WIDEBAND;

MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247262570     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/18/4/016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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