Signal processing techniques for landmine detection using impulse ground penetrating radar

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-51

  Zoubir, Abdelhak M ^a,b   Chant, Ian James ^c   Brown, Christopher L ^a,b,d   Barkat, Braham ^b,e   Abeynayake, Canicious ^c  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Buried object detection; Kalman filtering; Radar signal processing

Indexed keywords

BURIED OBJECT DETECTION; LANDMINE DETECTION; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; EXPLOSIVES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 4344653556     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7361.987060     Document Type: Article

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