Subsurface sensing of buried objects under a randomly rough surface using scattered electromagnetic field data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-117

  Firoozabadi, Reza ^a,b   Miller, Eric L ^a,b   Rappaport, Carey M ^a,b   Morgenthaler, Ann W ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

B splines; Dispersive media; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Inversion methods; Nonlinear optimization; Rough surface; Subsurface sensing

Indexed keywords

B-SPLINES; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); INVERSION METHODS; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION; SUBSURFACE SENSING;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MICROWAVES; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33846262940     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.883462     Document Type: Article

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