Sparse reconstruction from GPR data with applications to rebar detection

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1070-1079

  Soldovieri, Francesco ^a   Solimene, Raffaele ^b   Lo Monte, Lorenzo ^c   Bavusi, Massimo ^d   Loperte, Antonio ^d  

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

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experiments in realistic conditions; ground penetrating radar (GPR); intrawall imaging; inverse scattering

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; INTRAWALL IMAGING; INVERSE SCATTERING; LINEAR MODEL; MIGRATION ALGORITHMS; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; REBAR DETECTION; SCATTERED FIELD; SPARSE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SCATTERING;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951676501     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2078310     Document Type: Article

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