Development of a time-frequency representation for acoustic detection of buried objects

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2984-2995

  Valeau, Vincent ^a,b   Sabatier, James ^a   Costley, R Daniel ^a,c   Xiang, Ning ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b Pole Sciences et Technologies   (France)

^c Ducommun Incorporated   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECKLE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

LAND-MINES; LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETERS (LDV); MOMENTS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ENERGY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; VELOCITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 9644276880     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1806824     Document Type: Article

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