Modeling the response of electromagnetic induction sensors to inhomogeneous magnetic soils with arbitrary relief

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2627-2638

  Druyts, Pascal ^a   Das, Yogadhish ^b   Craeye, Christophe ^c   Acheroy, Marc ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Born approximation; Electromagnetic induction (EMI); Humanitarian demining; Magnetic susceptibility; Metal detector (MD); Reciprocity; Sensitivity map

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION SENSORS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GENERAL MODEL; HALF-SPACE; HUMANITARIAN DEMINING; INHOMOGENEITIES; MAGNETIC SOILS; MINE CLEARANCE; RECIPROCITY; SENSITIVITY MAP; SENSOR COILS; SENSOR HEAD; SOIL MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

BORN APPROXIMATION; DAMPING; EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; METAL DETECTORS; MINING; QUANTUM THEORY; SENSORS; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

BORN APPROXIMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECIPROCITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SOIL PROPERTY;

EID: 67949111068     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2013843     Document Type: Article

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