Sensor Review: Volume 11 Issue 2

Strapline:

The international journal of sensing for industry
Subject:

Table of contents

MAGNETIC FIELD SENSOR DESIGN

Steven A. Macintyre

The magnetic field generated or disturbed by an object is often overlooked when we need to inspect or detect it. In this tutorial Steve Macintyre describes the fundamental design…

MAGNETOMETER APPLICATIONS — CABLE LOCATION

David Golding

This article describes the design and application of underwater cable location systems.

TILE INSPECTION – THE RIGHT APPLICATION

Martin Coulthard

Industrial machine vision gained a reputation in the 1980s for being expensive and unreliable. Martin Coulthard of Surface Inspection Ltd discusses how its reputation might be…

SENSORS AND THE DTI

John Fleming

Dr John Fleming is the co‐ordinator of the Department of Trade and Industry's Advanced Sensors Technology Transfer Programme, which sponsored the seminar reported on page 21. Here…

ADVANCED SENSORS – WHERE THE MONEY IS

Jack Hollingum

Business opportunities in advanced sensors were highlighted at a seminar sponsored under the DTI Advanced Sensors Technology Transfer Programme.

OPTICAL PATENTS — A SOURCE OF BRIGHT IDEAS: UK EXCELS IN AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF OPTICAL SENSOR PATENTS

Peter McGeehin

Introduction Optical sensors, and especially fibre optic sensors, offer some significant technical advantages over conventional electronic sensors. These technical advantages have…

INVENTIONS: HOW TO PROTECT AN ENGINEER'S MOST VALUABLE ASSETS

Peter Jennings

It is often said that the British have produced many of the world's greatest inventions but that it is all too frequently the case that other countries have benefited more from…

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ISSN:

0260-2288

e-ISSN:

1758-6828

ISSN-L:

0260-2288

Online date, start – end:

1981

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Kean C. Aw