Morphological processing of electromagnetic scattering data for enhancing the reconstruction accuracy of the iterative multi-scaling approach

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 82, Issue , 2008, Pages 299-318

  Franceschini, D ^a   Donelli, M ^a   Rocca, P ^a   Benedetti, M ^a   Massa, A ^a   Pastorino, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OBJECT DETECTION;

CONNECTED REGION; DIELECTRIC PROFILES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; HIGH RESOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 45749146248     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER08031704     Document Type: Article

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