Landmines ground-penetrating radar signal enhancement by digital filtering

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2393-2406

  Potin, Delphine ^b   Duflos, Emmanuel ^a,c   Vanheeghe, Philippe ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b Institut Superieur de l'Electronique et du Numerique   (France)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Clutter removal; Digital filtering; Fourier analysis; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Landmines

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER REMOVAL; DIGITAL FILTERING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); LANDMINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MINES; PERMITTIVITY;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 33748307651     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.875356     Document Type: Article

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