A New Space-Domain Microwave Imaging Approach to Detecting Inhomogeneous Dielectric Objects

1994 24th European Microwave Conference, EUMA 1994

Volumn 1, Issue , 1994, Pages 590-595

  Caorsi, S ^a   Gragnani, G L ^a   Pastorino, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OBJECT DETECTION;

ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; COMPUTER RESOURCES; DIELECTRIC CHARACTERISTICS; ILL-CONDITIONED LINEAR SYSTEMS; INHOMOGENEOUS DIELECTRIC OBJECTS; INTEGRAL EQUATION FORMULATION; INVERSE SCATTERING; REGULARIZATION PROCEDURE;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33747228080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMA.1994.337274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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