GPR Detection of Buried Symmetrically Shaped Mine-like Objects using Selective Independent Component Analysis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5089, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 375-386

  Karlsen, Brian ^a   Sørensen, Helge B D ^a   Larsen, Jan ^a   Jakobsen, Kaj B ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bow tie antenna; Features; Selective ICA; Stepped frequency; Time and frequency based ICA; Wideband

Indexed keywords

AMMUNITION; BANDWIDTH; DATA ACQUISITION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; DATASETS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242550737     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.487311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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