Radio frequency tomography for tunnel detection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1128-1137

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

^a GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

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

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried object detection; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Inverse scattering; Radio frequency (RF) tomography; Tunnel detection

Indexed keywords

BURIED-OBJECT DETECTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; INVERSE SCATTERING; RADIO FREQUENCIES; TUNNEL DETECTION;

DATA HANDLING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIO WAVES;

TOMOGRAPHY;

DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; RADIO WAVE; SENSOR; TOMOGRAPHY; TUNNEL;

EID: 77954623586     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2029341     Document Type: Article

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