Seismic monitoring of the North Korea nuclear test site using a multichannel correlation detector

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 5 PART 2, 2012, Pages 1897-1909

  Gibbons, Steven J ^a   Ringdal, Frode ^a  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; arrays; correlation; detectors; matched filters; nuclear explosions; seismic waves; seismology

Indexed keywords

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; ARRAYS; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; BACKGROUND NOISE; DETECTION THRESHOLD; FALSE ALARM RATE; FALSE ALARMS; MULTICHANNEL CORRELATION; NORTH KOREA; NUCLEAR TEST SITES; NUCLEAR TESTS; SEISMIC MONITORING; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SINGLE CHANNEL DETECTION; TEST SITE;

ALARM SYSTEMS; ARRAY PROCESSING; CORRELATION DETECTORS; DETECTORS; ERRORS; MATCHED FILTERS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TESTING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ARRAY; AUTOMATION; DETECTION METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; NOISE; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THRESHOLD;

NORTH KOREA;

EID: 84860326019     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2170429     Document Type: Article

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