DORT method as applied to ultrawideband signals for detection of buried objects

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1813-1820

  Micolau, Gilles ^a   Saillard, Marc ^a   Borderies, Pierre ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

Backpropagation; Detection of buried objects; Subsurface sensing; Time reversal

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PIPELINES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BURIED OBJECTS; DECOMPOSITION OF THE TIME REVERSAL OPERATOR METHOD; SUBSURFACE SENSING; ULTRAWIDEBAND SIGNALS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0141675952     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.814139     Document Type: Article

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