Evaluating some factors that affect feasility of using ground penetrating radar for landmine detection

Applied Geophysics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 221-230

  Metwaly, Mohamed ^a,b   Ismail, Ahmed ^a   Matsushima, Jun ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dielectric permittivity; GPR; Landmine

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948896999     PISSN: 16727975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11770-007-0026-7     Document Type: Article

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