Experiments of thermographic landmine detection with reduced size and compressed time

Infrared Physics and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 101-107

  Muscio, Alberto ^a   Corticelli, Mauro A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dimensional analysis; Infrared thermography; Landmine detection; Size reduction; Time compression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA PROCESSING; ORDNANCE; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY; LANDMINE DETECTION; SIZE REDUCTION; TIME COMPRESSION;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EID: 7544241973     PISSN: 13504495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2004.03.014     Document Type: Article

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