Time - Frequency domain signature analysis of GPR data for landmine identification

Proceedings of the 2007 4th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 159-162

  Lopera, O ^a,b,c   Milisavljevic N ^a   Daniels, D ^d   Macq, B ^b  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^d ERA TECHNOLOGY LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Landmine classification; Time frequency analysis; Wavelet transform; Wigner distribution

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DETECTORS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

(N-1) CRITERION; DUAL SENSOR; FALSE ALARMS; GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); INTERNATIONAL (CO); LAND MINES; LANDMINE IDENTIFICATION; LANDMINES; RADAR DATA; SIGNATURE ANALYSIS; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TIME FREQUENCIES; TIME FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TWO TYPES; VALUABLE INFORMATIONS; WAVELET TRANSFORM (WT); WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION (WVD);

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 46849088594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AGPR.2007.386544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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