Wideband nonlinear time reversal seismo-acoustic method for landmine detection

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1906-1910

  Sutin, Alexander ^a,b   Libbey, Brad ^c   Fillinger, Laurent ^a   Sarvazyan, Armen ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ARTANN Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^c US Army Research Development and Engineering Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADCAST SIGNALS; LAND MINE DETECTIONS; LAND MINES; LINEAR COMPONENTS; LINEAR TECHNIQUES; NON-LINEAR DEVIATIONS; NON-LINEAR EFFECTS; NONLINEAR COMPONENTS; NONLINEAR SURFACES; PHASE INVERSIONS; PHASE-INVERSION METHODS; SEISMIC VIBRATIONS; SEISMO-ACOUSTIC METHODS; SOIL LAYERS; SURFACE VELOCITIES; TIME REVERSALS; TIME-REVERSAL FOCUSING; WIDE BANDS; WIDE FREQUENCY BANDS;

ACOUSTICS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); EARTHQUAKES; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MINES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEISMIC WAVES;

EXPLOSIVES;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BOMB; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; VELOCITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 64749094738     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3083223     Document Type: Article

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