CMP antenna array GPR and signal-to-clutter ratio improvement

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-27

  Feng, Xuan ^a   Sato, Motoyuki ^b   Zhang, Yan ^a   Liu, Cai ^a   Shi, Fusheng ^c   Zhao, Yonghui ^d  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Common midpoint (CMP) antenna array; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Landmine detection; Signal to clutter ratio (SCR); Velocity estimation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNAS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA PROCESSING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; METAL DETECTORS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS;

ANTIPERSONNEL LAND MINES; BURIED LAND MINES; COMMON MIDPOINT (CMP) ANTENNA ARRAY; DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENT DATUMS; GPR ANTENNAS; GROUND SURFACES; GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); LANDMINE DETECTION; SURFACE CLUTTERS; TARGET SIGNALS; VELOCITY ESTIMATION; VELOCITY SPECTRUMS;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 58149505952     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2006634     Document Type: Article

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