Improving detection and discrimination of buried metallic objects in magnetic geologic settings by modeling the background soil response

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6953, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pasion, Leonard R ^a,b   Billings, Stephen D ^b   Oldenburg, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Sky Research Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Magnetic soils; Unexploded ordnance

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; ORDNANCE; SOIL SURVEYS; TARGETS;

GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; MAGNETIC SOILS; UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE;

METAL DETECTORS;

EID: 44349190869     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.779903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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