A numerical study of buried biomass effects on ground-penetrating radar performance

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1233-1240

  Niltawach, Nakasit ^a   Chen, Chi Chih ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^a   Baertlein, Brian A ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Discrete dipole approximation (DDA); Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Roots; Unexploded ordnance (UXO)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; EXCAVATION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDNANCE; SCATTERING;

DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION (DDA); MICROWAVE ATTENUATION; ROOTS; UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE (UXO);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 3042606177     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.825582     Document Type: Article

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