GPR Phase-Based Techniques for Profiling Rough Surfaces and Detecting Small, Low-Contrast Landmines Under Flat Ground

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 318-326

  Sai, Bin ^a   Ligthart, Leo P ^b  

^a Enraf BV   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar; Phase measurement; Phase variation signatures; Rough surfaces

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; EXPLOSIVES; PERMITTIVITY; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LANDMINES; PHASE VARIATION SIGNATURES; ROUGH SURFACES;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 1442336542     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817204     Document Type: Article

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