Moderately Rough Surface Underground Imaging via Short-Pulse Quasi-Ray Gaussian Beams

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2304-2318

  Galdi, Vincenzo ^a   Feng, Haihua ^b   Caslañon, David A ^c   Karl, William Clem ^c   Felsen, Leopold B ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b MATHWORKS INC   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve evolution; Gaussian beams; Ground penetrating radars; Rough surfaces; Short pulses; Total variation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0038591949     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.816363     Document Type: Article

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