Fusion of multimodal NDI images for aircraft corrosion detection and quantification

Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and its Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 375-405

  Liu, Zheng ^a   Forsyth, David S ^a   Komorowski, Jerzy P ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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