Blind Separation for Estimation of Near-Surface Interface by GPR with Time-Frequency Distribution

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E86-B, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 3071-3081

  Ebihara, Satoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clutter; Near surface planar interface; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; PERMAFROST; RADAR CLUTTER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 0242664640     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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