An imaging method for concealed targets

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1301-1309

  Catapano, Ilaria ^a   Crocco, Lorenzo ^a  

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

Author keywords

Buried object detection; Electromagnetic scattering inverse problem; Linear sampling method (LSM); Microwave imaging; Through the wall

Indexed keywords

BURIED OBJECT DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING INVERSE PROBLEM; LINEAR SAMPLING METHOD (LSM); MICROWAVE IMAGING; THROUGH THE WALL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MICROWAVES; TARGETS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; HOMOGENEITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MORPHOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SCATTERING;

EID: 67349095631     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2010773     Document Type: Article

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