Multiple-mode selection of walled-LTSA array elements for high-resolution imaging to visualize antipersonnel plastic landmines

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 745-749

  Masuyama, Soichi ^a   Yasuda, Kenzo ^a   Hirose, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive radar; Radar antenna; Radar signal processing; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); CONFORMAL MAPPING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MINES; PLASTICS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SLOT ANTENNAS; SOILS;

ADAPTIVE IMAGE PROCESSING; ADAPTIVE RADAR; ARRAY ELEMENTS; COUPLING EFFECTS; ELEMENT SELECTIONS; HIGH DENSITIES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGES; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; LATERITE SOILS; LINEARLY TAPERED SLOT ANTENNAS; MODE SELECTIONS; NEAR FIELDS; PENETRATING RADARS; PLASTIC LANDMINES; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENTS; SELF-ORGANIZING MAP; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVERS;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 55649086659     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2004509     Document Type: Article

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