Mitigating ground clutter effects with lightweight artificial dielectrics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4394, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 503-514

  Rappaport, Carey ^a   Biehold, Fred ^a   Linnehan, Robert ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial dielectrics; Coupling; Ground penetrating radar; Impedance matching; Mine detection

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; EXPLOSIVES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR ANTENNAS; VOLUME FRACTION;

ARTIFICIAL DIELECTRICS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0035758917     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.445503     Document Type: Article

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