Estimating the Impulse Response of Buried Objects from Ground Penetrating Radar Signals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5089, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 387-394

  Van der Lijn, Fedde ^a   Roth, Friedrich ^a   Verhaegen, Michel ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Ground dispersion; Ground penetrating radar; Landmine identification; Noise sensitivity; Signal processing; Subset selection; Target impulse response

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMMUNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GROUND DISPERSION; NOISE SENSITIVITY;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242635565     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.486979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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