Two-dimensional and three-dimensional NUFFT migration method for landmine detection using ground-penetrating radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1462-1469

  Song, Jiayu ^b,c   Liu, Qing Huo ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Torrione, Pete ^b,c   Collins, Leslie ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

^e ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^f US National Committee   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Migration, nonuniform fast fourier transform (NUFFT); Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve; Wavenumber space

Indexed keywords

FALSE ALARM RATE; MIGRATION, NONUNIFORM FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM (NUFFT); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (ROC) CURVE; WAVENUMBER SPACE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PHASE SHIFT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744717860     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.870412     Document Type: Article

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