Investigation of time-frequency features for GPR landmine discrimination

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 118-129

  Savelyev, Timofey Grigorievich ^b   Van Kempen, Luc ^c   Sahli, Hichem ^a,c   Sachs, Juergen ^d   Sato, Motoyuki ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Landmine discrimination; Mahalanobis distance; Singular value decomposition (SVD); Time frequency features, ultrawideband (UWB); Wigner distribution (WD)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MINES; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); LANDMINE DISCRIMINATION; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCE; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD); TIME-FREQUENCY FEATURES, ULTRAWIDEBAND (UWB); WIGNER DISTRIBUTION (WD);

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846195791     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.885077     Document Type: Article

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