Accurate determination of underground GPR wavefront and B-scan shape from above-ground point sources

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2429-2434

  Rappaport, Carey M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Modeling, wave propagation

Indexed keywords

B-SCAN CONTOUR; GROUND SURFACE; HYPERBOLA; QUASI-PLANAR INTERFACES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFRACTION; SOILS; WAVEFRONTS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547418021     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.901004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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