Clutter removal for landmine using different signal processing techniques

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 697-700

  Abujarad, Fawzy ^a   Jöstingmeier, Andreas ^a   Omar, A S ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clutter; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Landmine; Likelihood; Simple mean subtraction; Singular value decomposition; System identification; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CLUTTER; LANDMINES; LIKELIHOOD; SIMPLE MEAN SUBTRACTION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 16244407432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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