A compressive sensing data acquisition and imaging method for stepped frequency GPRs

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2640-2650

  Gurbuz, Ali Cafer ^a   McClellan, James H ^b   Scott, Waymond R ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 minimization; Compressive sensing; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Sparsity; Stepped frequency systems; Subsurface imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE SENSING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); SPARSITY; STEPPED FREQUENCY SYSTEMS; SUBSURFACE IMAGING;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; TARGETS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 67650122749     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2016270     Document Type: Article

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