Detection of antipersonnel mines by using the factorization method on multistatic ground-penetrating radar measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-92

  Fischer, Christian ^b   Herschlein, Alexander ^b   Younis, Marwan ^a,c   Wiesbeck, Werner ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angular diversity; Antipersonnel mine; Discrete complex image method (DCIM); Factorization method (FM); Green's function; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Linear sampling method; Multistatic radar; Stratified media

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

ANGULAR DIVERSITY; ANTIPERSONNEL MINES; DISCRETE COMPLEX IMAGE METHOD (DCIM); FACTORIZATION METHOD (FM); LINEAR SAMPLING METHOD; MULTISTATIC RADAR; STRATIFIED MEDIA;

MINES;

EID: 33846262941     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.883464     Document Type: Article

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