Three-dimensional microwave imaging problems solved through an efficient multiscaling particle swarm optimization

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1467-1481

  Donelli, Massimo ^a   Franceschini, Davide ^a   Rocca, Paolo ^a   Massa, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering inverse problems; Large scale inverse scattering problems; Microwave imaging; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

3-D MICROWAVE IMAGING; COMPUTATIONAL BURDENS; CONSTRAINED CONTROLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING INVERSE PROBLEMS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; GLOBAL SEARCH CAPABILITIES; LARGE-SCALE INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MULTI STEPS; MULTI-SCALING; MULTIRESOLUTION; NUMERICAL TESTS; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGIES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZER; PARTICLE SWARMS; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; SEARCH SPACES;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SCATTERING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 67349115339     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2005529     Document Type: Article

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