Experiments and algorithms to detect snow avalanche victims using airborne ground-penetrating radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2240-2251

  Fruehauf, Florian ^a   Heilig, Achim ^b   Schneebeli, Martin ^c   Fellin, Wolfgang ^d   Scherzer, Otmar ^d  

^a MathConsult GmbH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automatic test software; Image processing; Image segmentation; Radar application; Radar signal processing

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE GPR; AIRBORNE RADARS; AUTOMATIC TEST SOFTWARE; DRY SNOW; FULLY OPERATIONAL; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; RADAR APPLICATION; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; RAPID SEARCH; REAL TIME; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SNOW AVALANCHE; TWO-STEP ALGORITHMS; VERY LARGE DATUM;

ALGORITHMS; AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

RADAR;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; AVALANCHE; DETECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; RADAR; REAL TIME; SNOW; SURVIVAL; TESTING METHOD;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 67651161891     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2012717     Document Type: Article

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