Ground Penetrating Radar as a Subsurface Environmental Sensing Tool

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 1802-1822

  Leon, L Peters ^a   Young, Jonathan D ^a   Daniels, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MAPPING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REMOTE SENSING;

COMPLEX NATURAL RESONANCES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING TOOL;

RADAR;

EID: 0028743575     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.338072     Document Type: Article

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