Finding Treasures with Physics: the Fingerprint Matrix

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v4rp1ng

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Researchers at TU Wien have developed a 'fingerprint matrix' method using physics to improve the detection of buried objects, such as treasures, and the technique is generating interest in the HN community for its potential applications.

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v4rp1ngAuthor

3 months ago

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So simple — why hasn't anyone thought of that already?

signa11

3 months ago

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typically you don’t know that you are looking for steel-balls in sand, you might be looking for gold coins etc. in such cases the space of all interesting fingerprints is just too large.

efm

3 months ago

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The interesting fingerprints are the ones which are different than the surrounding material.

yorwba

3 months ago

And that is too large a space to test them all with this method.

tanderson92

3 months ago

They have.

lyu07282

3 months ago