Analysis of the emitted wavelet of high-resolution bowtie GPR antennas

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4230-4246

  Rial, Fernando I ^a   Lorenzo, Henrique ^a   Pereira, Manuel ^a   Armesto, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bow tie antenna; Source wavelet; Time and frequency analysis; Time zero

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; BOW-TIE ANTENNAS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); SOURCE WAVELET; STABILITY AND RELIABILITIES; TIME AND FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TIME ZERO;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 67649628241     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90604230     Document Type: Article

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