Mitigating ground clutter effects for mine detection with lightweight artificial dielectrics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4742, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 259-268

  Linnehan, Rob ^a   Rappaport, Carey ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MINE DETECTION;

MINES;

EID: 0036440124     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479097     Document Type: Article

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