On the use of evanescent electromagnetic waves in the detection and identification of objects buried in lossy soil

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1295-1300

  Smith, Glenn S ^a,b   Rickard Petersson, L E ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVANESCENT WAVES; LANDMINE DETECTION; TRANSDUCER RADIATION;

ANTENNA RADIATION; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); EXPLOSIVES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 0034261629     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.898761     Document Type: Article

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