Independent component analysis for clutter reduction in ground penetrating radar data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4742, Issue I, 2002, Pages 378-389

  Karlsen, Brian ^a   Sørensen, Helge B D ^a   Larsen, Jan ^a   Jakobsen, Kaj B ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anti personal landmine detection; Clutter reduction; Ground penetrating radar; Independent component analysis; Statistical signal processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MINES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

LANDMINE DETECTION;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 18744379137     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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