An improved correlation based detector for a hand-held landmine detector

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4394, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 483-493

  Ho, K C ^a   Gader, P D ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Ground Penetrating Radar; Landmine; Linear prediction; Maximum likelihood; Subband

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCIES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LANDMINE DETECTORS;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 0035758902     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.445501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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