SNR improvements in NIITEK ground penetrating RADAR

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5415, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 399-408

  Hintz, Kenneth J ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Ground penetrating RADAR; Inverse filtering; Mine detection; Point spread function

Indexed keywords

DECONVOLUTION; MINE DETECTION; POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS;

CROSSTALK; INVERSE KINEMATICS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PROBABILITY; RADAR CLUTTER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044227481     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.542786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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