Suppression of surface reflection in subsurface imaging applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4491, Issue , 2001, Pages 120-130

  Testorf, Markus E ^a   Fiddy, Michael A ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse scattering; Spectral estimation techniques; Subsurface imaging; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ESTIMATION; EXTRAPOLATION; IMAGE QUALITY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REFLECTION;

SUBSURFACE IMAGING; SURFACE REFLECTION; TARGET SPECTRUM;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0035767810     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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