NIOSH-sponsored research in through-the-earth communications for mines: A status report

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1700-1707

  Yenchek, Michael R ^a   Homce, Gerald T ^a   Damiano, Nicholas W ^a   Srednicki, Justin R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication systems; receivers; vocoders; wireless communications

Indexed keywords

ANALOG PROCESSING; COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; DIRECTION FINDING; FIELD TEST; GEOLOGICAL VARIATIONS; MINE SITE; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTHS; NOISE FILTERING; POWER LEVELS; PROTOTYPE HARDWARE; SYSTEM FEATURES; TRANSMISSION RANGES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS); VOCODERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOOP ANTENNAS;

EID: 84866525324     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2012.2209853     Document Type: Article

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