A complete electromagnetic simulation of the separated-aperture sensor for detecting buried land mines

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1419-1426

  Bourgeois, Jacqueline M ^a,b   Smith, Glenn S ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried object detection; Fdtd methods; Groundpenetrating radar; Land mine terms

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MICROWAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LAND MINE DETECTION;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0032184569     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.725272     Document Type: Article

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