Time-domain sensing of targets buried under a rough air-ground interface

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 360-372

  Dogaru, Traian ^a   Carin, Lawrence ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried object detection; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL FILTERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRACKING RADAR;

BURIED OBJECT DETECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) ALGORITHMS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS (ROC);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0032028659     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.662655     Document Type: Article

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