Ground penetrating radar: A smart sensor for the evaluation of the railway trackbed

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Loizos, Andreas ^a   Plati, Christina ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ballast; GPR; Railways trackbed

Indexed keywords

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK); COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RAIL LAYING; RAILROAD TRACKS;

FIELD DATA; RAILWAY TRACKBED; REAL TIME CURSORY ANALYSIS; TRACKBED FORMATION;

SMART SENSORS;

EID: 34648816364     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/imtc.2007.379026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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