Comparative analysis of UWB deconvolution and feature extraction algorithms for GPR landmine detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5415, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1008-1015

  Savelyev, Timofei G ^a   Sato, Motoyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CWT; Deconvolution; Regularization; SVD; Wavelets; Wigner distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CWT; DECONVOLUTION; REGULARIZATION; SVD; WAVELETS; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 10044231887     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.541748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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