Standoff detection of explosive substances at distances of up to 150m

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2072-2078

  Mukherjee, Anadi ^a,b   Von Der Porten, Steven ^a   Patel, C Kumar N ^a,c  

^a Pranalytica Inc   (United States)

^b Infrasign LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA HANDLING; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; INFRARED RADIATION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BLACK BODY RADIATION; DATA PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATIONS; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; LONG WAVE INFRARED; MID WAVE INFRARED (MWIR); STAND-OFF DISTANCE (SOD); STANDOFF DETECTION;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 77955668393     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.002072     Document Type: Article

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