Land mine and clutter object discrimination using wavelet and time domain spatially distributed features from metal detectors and their fusion with GPR features for hand-held units

Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-191

  Stanley, R Joe ^a   Ho, K C ^b   Gader, Paul ^c   Wilson, Joseph N ^c   Devaney, James ^b  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; METAL DETECTORS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CLUTTER OBJECT DISCRIMINATION; LAND MINE; ROBOTIC WAND UNIT;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE);

EID: 34547394472     PISSN: 0278081X     EISSN: 15315878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00034-005-1205-5     Document Type: Article

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