Through-wall imaging via a linear inverse scattering algorithm

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 513-517

  Soldovieri, Francesco ^a   Solimene, Raffaele ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b Università Me diterranea di Reggio Calabria   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Linear inverse scattering problem; Singular value decomposition (SVD); Through wall imaging (TWI)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; PROBLEM SOLVING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

LINEAR INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEM; SCALAR GEOMETRY; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD); THROUGH-WALL IMAGING (TWI);

SCATTERING;

EID: 35348816715     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.900735     Document Type: Article

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