A synthetic aperture radar-based focusing algorithm for B-scan ground penetrating radar imagery

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2534-2540

  Ylgit, Enes ^a   Demirci, Sevket ^a   Ozdemir, Caner ^a   Kavak, Adnan ^b  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aperture radar; Ground penetrating radar; Migration techniques; Radar imaging; Synthetic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOCUSING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHYSICAL OPTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

B-SCAN GPR IMAGES; C-BAND MEASURED DATA; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYPERBOLIC EFFECTS; IMAGE DOMAIN DATA; MIGRATION TECHNIQUES; SCATTERED ENERGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 34548600000     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.22724     Document Type: Article

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