Subsurface object sensing with a multifrequency microwave radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2719-2726

  Johnson, Joel T ^a   Kim, Hyunjun ^a   Wiggins, David R ^a   Cheon, Yonghun ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Radiometry; Subsurface sensing; Thermal emission

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RADIOMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SUBSURFACE SENSING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036991340     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.807753     Document Type: Article

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