Unexploded ordnance discrimination using time-domain electromagnetic induction and self-organizing maps

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-179

  Benavides, Alfonso I ^a   Everett, Mark E ^a   Pierce Jr , Carl ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIED METAL OBJECTS; CLUSTER BOUNDARIES; CLUTTER OBJECTS; DATA CLUSTERS; DATA SETS; DO-MAINS; EUCLIDEAN METRIC; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; MATRIX METHODS; SMALL CLUSTERS; SOM CLUSTERS; TRAINING DATASET; UNEXPLODED ORDNANCES;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); CONFORMAL MAPPING; CRACK INITIATION; DAMPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; GEOPHYSICS; INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; ORDNANCE; PROJECTILES; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TRANSIENTS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BURIED TARGET; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; MAPPING METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 58249086745     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-007-0211-5     Document Type: Article

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