Effects of magnetic soil on metal detectors - Preliminary experimental results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6553, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Das, Y ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic properties of soil; Humanitarian demining; Landmine detection; Magnetic susceptibility of soils; Magnetic viscosity; Pulsed induction metal detectors

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; METAL DETECTORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; HUMANITARIAN DEMINING; LANDMINE DETECTION; MAGNETIC VISCOSITY; PULSED INDUCTION METAL DETECTORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 35948962768     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.717939     Document Type: Conference Paper

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