Semi-automatic feature extraction from GPR data for archaeology

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-84

  Leckebusch, Jürg ^a   Weibel, Andreas ^a   Bühler, Flurin ^a  

^a Terra Vermessungen Ag   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARCHAEOLOGY; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXTRACTION METHOD; GEOMETRY; GIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SOFTWARE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 41849094443     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2007033     Document Type: Article

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