Multitarget detection/tracking for monostatic ground penetrating radar: Application to pavement profiling

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 II, 1999, Pages 383-394

  Spagnolini, Umberto ^a   Rampa, Vittorio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Radar applications; Radar detection; Radar signal processing; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR CORRECTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PAVEMENTS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR) SYSTEMS; MULTITARGET DETECTION/TRACKING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032737175     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739074     Document Type: Article

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