On the detection of objects buried at a shallow depth using seismic wave reflections

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1366-1374

  Papandreou, Ben ^a   Brennan, Michael J ^a   Rustighi, Emiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIED OBJECTS; COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGE; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; EXCITATION SIGNALS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GROUND VELOCITY; PHASE TRANSFORM; SEISMIC EXCITATIONS; SEISMIC WAVE REFLECTION; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SIMULATED DATA;

PIPE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NOISE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRANSDUCER; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NOISE; OCEANS AND SEAS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; WATER;

EID: 79953065893     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3552878     Document Type: Article

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