Land mine detection by infrared thermography: Reduction of size and duration of the experiments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1955-1964

  Muscio, Alberto ^a   Corticelli, Mauro A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buried object detection; Infrared measurements; Nondestructive testing; Simulation; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEAT TRANSFER; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

BURIED OBJECT DETECTION; INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY; THERMAL NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING (TNDT);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 4744370924     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.831443     Document Type: Article

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