A large-scale systematic evaluation of algorithms using ground-penetrating radar for landmine detection and discrimination

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2560-2572

  Wilson, Joseph N ^a,b   Gader, Paul ^a,b   Lee, Wen Hsiung ^c   Frigui, Hichem ^d   Ho, K C ^a,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c NIITEK Inc   (United States)

^d University of Louisville   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Landmine detection

Indexed keywords

CROSS-VALIDATION EVALUATION; DISCRIMINATION; HISTOGRAMS; LANDMINE DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MINES; OPTICAL SENSORS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547443915     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.900993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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