Reconstruction of homogeneous dielectric cylinders by a supervised learning system and space-stepped GPR electromagnetic data

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 353-357

  Caorsi, Salvatore ^a   Cevini, Gaia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buried cylinders; Ground penetrating radar; Inverse scattering; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; BACKPROPAGATION; CYLINDERS (CONTAINERS); DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MONOCHROMATORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERMITTIVITY;

BURIED CYLINDERS; GPR SENSING; INVERSE SCATTERING; MULTILAYER PERCEPTRONS (MLP);

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4043051539     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.20303     Document Type: Article

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