GA design of a thin-wire bow-tie antenna for GPR applications

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1004-1009

  De Jong Van Coevorden, Carlos Moreno ^b   Bretones, Amelia Rubio ^a,b,c   Pantoja, Mario Fernández ^b,d,e   García Ruiz, Francisco J ^b   García, Salvador G ^a,b   Martín, Rafael Gómez ^a,b,f,g  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f Electromagnetics Group ^*  (Spain)

^g Electromagnetics Group   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms (GAs); GPR antenna design; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Thin wire antennas; Ultrawideband antennas

Indexed keywords

GPR ANTENNA DESIGN; GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); THIN-WIRE ANTENNAS; ULTRAWIDEBAND ANTENNAS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIATION EFFECTS; WIRE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33645656759     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.862264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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