A microwave tomographic imaging approach for multibistatic configuration: The choice of the frequency step

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1926-1933

  Persico, Raffaele ^b   Soldovieri, Francesco ^b   Leone, Giovanni ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Born approximation (BA); Electromagnetic scattering inverse problems; Ground penetrating radar; Microwave tomography; Radar imaging

Indexed keywords

BORN APPROXIMATION (BA); ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING INVERSE PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY; TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MICROWAVES; RADAR IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33947308736     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.884346     Document Type: Article

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