Discrimination experiments with the U.S. Army's standard metal detector

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Riggs, Lloyd ^a   Chilaka, Sailaja ^a   Collins, Leslie ^b   Lowe, Larry ^c,e   Weaver, Richard ^d  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c Phase IV Systems   (United States)

^d NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE   (United States)

^e Phase IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Electromagnetic induction; Metal detectors

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MINES; PROBABILITY; SEISMOLOGY; SENSORS; SOILS; X RAY SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTIONS; MINE DETECTION SYSTEMS; ZERO FALSE ALARMS;

METAL DETECTORS;

EID: 5444221233     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003RS002955     Document Type: Article

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