Broadband bistatic coherent and incoherent detection of buried objects beneath randomly rough surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 II, 2000, Pages 891-898

  O'Neill, Kevin ^a  

^a Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MOISTURE; RADAR; SCANNING ANTENNAS; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ANGULAR CORRECTION FUNCTION; BURIED OBJECTS; COMBINED FREQUENCY AND SPATIAL AVERAGING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; SUBSURFACE;

METAL DETECTORS;

EID: 0033891626     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841972     Document Type: Article

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