Improving Mine Recognition through Processing and Dempster-Shafer Fusion of Multisensor Data

Computer-Aided Intelligent Recognition Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 319-343

  Milisavljevic̀, Nada ^a   Bloch, Isabelle ^b  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Combination of Masses; Ellipse fitting algorithm; Fusion approach; GPR data acquisition; Imaging MD; Point Spread Function (PSF); TNO Physics and Electronics laboratory; Wiener filtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249845321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470094168.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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