3-D Radar imaging of buried utilities by features estimation of hyperbolic diffraction patterns in radar scans

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2004

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 403-406

  Falorni, Pierluigi ^a   Capineri, Lorenzo ^a   Masotti, Leonardo ^a   Pinelli, Gianpaolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Alta SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buried utilities; Features estimation; Hyperbolic pattern; Radar

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

3D TOPOPGRAPHIC MAPPING; BURIED UTILITIES; FEATURE ESTIMATION; HYPERBOLIC PATTERN;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 16244364404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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