A waveform-range performance diagram for ground-penetrating radar

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 117-126

  Plumb, Richard G ^a   Noon, David A ^b,c   Longstaff, I Dennis ^b,c   Stickley, Glen F ^b,c  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar; Loop gain; Penetration; Performance; System performance

Indexed keywords

PERFORMANCE; RADIO INTERFERENCE;

ANTENNA RINGING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR);

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 0032179112     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-9851(97)00042-6     Document Type: Article

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