Clutter reduction and detection of landmine objects in ground penetrating radar data using singular value decomposition (SVD)

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 37-41

  Abujarad, Fawzy ^a   Nadim, Galal ^b   Omar, Abbas ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Fayoum University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Clutter; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Landmines; SVD

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MINING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CLUTTER; LANDMINES; SVD;

MINES;

EID: 33745178887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487840     Document Type: Conference Paper

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