A Kirchhoff-based shape reconstruction algorithm for the multimonostatic configuration: The realistic case of buried pipes

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3031-3038

  Soldovieri, Francesco ^a   Brancaccio, Adriana ^b   Prisco, Giancarlo ^b   Leone, Giovanni ^b   Pierri, Rocco ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Inverse problems; Kirchhoff approximation; Microwave tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DATA PROCESSING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; PIPE; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRACKING RADAR;

GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); INVERSE PROBLEMS; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION; MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 53849088264     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.921959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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