A Novel signal processing technique for clutter reduction in gpr measurements of small, shallow land mines

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2627-2637

  Van Merwe, Andria Der ^a,b   Gupta, Inder J ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Andrew Corporation   (United States)

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutter; Ground penetrating radar (gpr); Land mines

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); FEATURE EXTRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CLUTTER REDUCTION; LAND MINES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0034314515     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.885209     Document Type: Article

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