Statistical modeling of rough surface scattering for ground-penetrating radar applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3392, Issue , 1998, Pages 735-744

  Tsihrintzis, George A ^a   Rappaport, Carey M ^a   Winton, Scott C ^a   Johansen, Peter M ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD modeling; Ground penetrating radar; Rough surface scattering

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; POLLUTION; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMEDIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CLUTTER MODELS; FD-TD TECHNIQUES; FDTD MODELING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; NON-GAUSSIAN SIGNALS; PARAMETRIC MODELS; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; ROUGH-SURFACE CLUTTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL MODELING; SYNTHETIC DATUM;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 0038591905     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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