A new method to simultaneously estimate the radius of a cylindrical object and the wave propagation velocity from GPR data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1620-1630

  Ristic, Aleksandar Vaso ^a   Petrovacki, Dusan ^a   Govedarica, Miro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Cylindrical object radius; Hyperbolic reflection; Least squares fitting; Propagation velocity; Radar scan

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; CHARACTERISATION; CYLINDRICAL OBJECT RADIUS; CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS; ESTIMATION METHODS; ESTIMATION QUALITY; EXISTING METHOD; GPR APPLICATIONS; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HYPERBOLIC REFLECTION; LEAST SQUARES FITTING; MATLAB ENVIRONMENT; NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARES FITTING; PROPAGATION VELOCITIES; PROPAGATION VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION VELOCITIES;

ESTIMATION; MATLAB; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

RADAR REFLECTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CYLINDER; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; METHODOLOGY; SOFTWARE; SOIL ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 67650588809     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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