Shape reconstruction of 2-D buried objects under a Kirchhoff approximation

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 118-121

  Liseno, Angelo ^a,b   Tartaglione, Francesco ^b   Soldovieri, Francesco ^c  

^a Deutsches Zentrum Luftund Raumfahrt   (Germany)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buried object detection; Electromagnetic scattering inverse problems; Physical optics; Shape; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PHYSICAL OPTICS;

BURIED-OBJECT DETECTION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 2442461367     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.824748     Document Type: Article

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