RF tomography for below-ground imaging of extended areas and close-in sensing

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 496-500

  Lo Monte, Lorenzo ^a   Erricolo, Danilo ^b   Soldovieri, Francesco ^c   Wicks, Michael C ^d  

^a GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Green's functions; ground penetrating radar; lateral waves; radio frequency tomography; tunnel detection

Indexed keywords

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; LATERAL WAVES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO-FREQUENCY TOMOGRAPHY; TUNNEL DETECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EID: 77954622398     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2039918     Document Type: Article

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