Prediction of the effects of soil and target properties on the antipersonnel landmine detection performance of ground-penetrating radar: A Colombian case study

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-23

  Lopera, Olga ^a,b,c   Milisavljevic, Nada ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Detection performance; FDTD modeling; Ground penetrating radar; Humanitarian demining; Pedotransfer functions

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; SOILS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; HUMANITARIAN DEMINING; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; LANDMINE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOIL PROPERTY;

EID: 34548200818     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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