Ultrawide-band synthetic aperture radar for detection of unexploded ordnance: Modeling and measurements

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1306-1315

  Sullivan, Anders ^a,b   Damarla, Raju ^a,b   Geng, Norbert ^a,c   Dong, Yanting ^d   Carin, Lawrence ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried object detection; Ground penetrating radar; Synthetic aperature radar; Ultrawide band (UWB) radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ORDNANCE; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADAR IMAGING;

MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHM; UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0034261598     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.898763     Document Type: Article

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