Measurement of layer thickness and permittivity using a new multilayer model from GPR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2463-2470

  Kao, Chien Ping ^b   Li, Jing ^a,b   Wang, Ying ^b   Xing, Huichun ^b   Liu, Ce Richard ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Pavement; Thickness measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYERS; PERMITTIVITY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ANTENNA SEPARATION; TRANSMISSION-LINE MATRIX (TLM) METHOD; WAVE PATHS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547489894     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.900980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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