Ground bounce tracking for landmine detection using a sequential Monte Carlo method

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6553, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Tang, Li ^a   Torrione, Peter A ^a   Eldeniz, Cihat ^a   Collins, Leslie M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground bounce tracking; Ground penetrating radar; Landmine detection; Sequential Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; MINES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GROUND BOUNCE TRACKING; LANDMINE DETECTION; SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO (SMC);

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 35948934704     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.718462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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