Three-dimensional imaging of buried objects in very lossy earth by inversion of VETEM data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 10 PART I, 2003, Pages 2197-2210

  Cui, Tie Jun ^a   Aydiner, Alaeddin A ^b   Chew, Weng Cho ^b   Wright, D L ^c   Smith, D V ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried objects; Singular value decomposition (SVD); Three dimensional imaging; Three dimensional inversion; Tikhonov regularization; Very early time electromagnetic (VETEM) data; Very lossy earth

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; GRADIENT METHODS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

BORN APPROXIMATION; BORN ITERATIVE METHOD; INVERSE SCATTERING TECHNIQUE; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY EARLY TIME ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0242355089     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.815974     Document Type: Article

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