GPR prospecting in a layered medium via microwave tomography

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 559-572

  Crocco, Lorenzo ^a   Soldovieri, Francesco ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

GPR; Ill posed problems; Inverse scattering; Microwave tomography

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; LAYERED MEDIUM; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2642521341     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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