Physicists build inexpensive land mine detection system using off-the-shelf components

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 09:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Anyone who is an online shopper and humanitarian might find this research project appealing. Physics professor John Scales is working on a low-cost, human-focused, high technology effort to stop the devastation of unexploded buried land mines with a novel acoustical/microwave detection system. The work is described in the Journal of Applied Physics.

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