Analysis of wideband forward looking synthetic aperture radar for sensing land mines

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Kovvali, Narayan ^a   Carin, Lawrence ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Land mine; Radar

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VECTORS;

MINE FIELDS; SENSING LAND MINES; VECTOR MACHINES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 5444264929     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003RS002967     Document Type: Article

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