Three-dimensional through-wall imaging under ambiguous wall parameters

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1310-1317

  Solimene, Raffaele ^a   Soldovieri, Francesco ^b   Prisco, Giancarlo ^a   Pierri, Rocco ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Linear inverse scattering problem; Singular value decomposition; Through wall imaging (TWI)

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTIES; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; DIELECTRIC SLABS; LINEAR INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEM; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES; SCATTERED FIELDS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHMS; THROUGH-WALL IMAGING (TWI); WALL PARAMETERS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT SCATTERING; RETAINING WALLS; SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ALGORITHM; GEOMETRY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR IMAGERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WALL;

EID: 67349181250     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2012698     Document Type: Article

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