Three-dimensional microwave tomography by a 2-D slice-based reconstruction algorithm

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 556-560

  Solimene, Raffaele ^a   Soldovieri, Francesco ^b   Prisco, Giancarlo ^a   Pierri, Rocco ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Kirchhoff approximation; Linear inverse problem; Strong scatterer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION; LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEM; STRONG SCATTERER;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 35348906677     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.900741     Document Type: Article

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