Physical limitations on detecting tunnels using underground-focusing spotlight synthetic aperture radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 65-70

  Martinez Lorenzo, Jose Angel ^a   Rappaport, Carey M ^a   Quivira, Fernando ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rough surfaces; signal processing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CLAY LOAMS; DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; DRY SAND; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GROUND SURFACES; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS; ROUGH SURFACES; SAR FOCUSING; SAR IMAGES; SAR IMAGING; SHALLOW TUNNEL; TARGET SIGNALS; TUNNEL DETECTION; WIDE-BAND;

FOCUSING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; REFRACTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLAY LOAM; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPOTLIGHT SURVEY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TUNNEL; UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 78650922817     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2051952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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