Simulation of Near-Surface Detection of Objects in Layered Media by the BCGS-FFT Method

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 327-334

  Millard, Xuemin ^a,b   Liu, Qing Huo ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried objects; Layered media; Scattering; Stabilized biconjugate gradient fast Fourier transform (BCGS FFT) algorithm; Subsurface sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOPHYSICS; ORDNANCE; UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES;

BURIED OBJECTS; LAYERED MEDIA; STABILIZED BICONJUGATE GRADIENT FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM (BCGS-FFT); SUBSURFACE SENSING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1442360987     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817799     Document Type: Article

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