Underwater UXO detection and discrimination: Understanding EMI scattering phenomena in a conducting environment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6953, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Shubitidze, Fridon ^a,b   Barrowes, Benjamin ^c   Shamatava, Irma ^a,b   Fernández, Juan Pablo ^a   O'Neill, Kevin ^a,c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Sky Research Inc   (United States)

^c Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Conducting environments; Detection discrimination; MAS model; Modeling; Skin depth; Underwater; UXO

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION (EMI) SENSING; LAND MINES; SKIN DEPTH; UNDERWATER DETECTION; UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE (UXO);

ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL DETECTORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 44349184861     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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