A new shape-based method for object localization and characterization from scattered field data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 1682-1696

  Miller, Eric L ^a,b   Kilmer, Misha ^c   Rappaport, Carey ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

B splines; Clutter models; Inverse scattering; Mine detection; Shape based methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; POLYNOMIALS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

B-SPLINES; CLUTTER MODELS; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; INVERSE SCATTERING; LEAST SQUARES COST FUNCTION; MINE DETECTION; OBJECT LOCALIZATION; SHAPE BASED METHOD; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATLAB;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0034230072     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851967     Document Type: Article

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