Automatic detection of bridge deck condition from ground penetrating radar images

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 633-640

  Wang, Zhe Wendy ^a   Zhou, Mengchu ^b   Slabaugh, Gregory G ^c   Zhai, Jiefu ^e   Fang, Tong ^d  

^a Iris ID Systems Inc   (United States)

^b Ministry of Education   (China)

^c Medicsight PLC   (United Kingdom)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e APPLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic detection; ground penetrating radar (GPR); image processing; partial differential equations (PDEs)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT; GPR IMAGES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; GROWING DEMAND; IMAGE CONTRASTS; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NOVEL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL; QUALITY OF CONCRETE;

ALGORITHMS; BRIDGE DECKS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; DELAMINATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STEEL SHEET; TRACKING RADAR;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960120760     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2010.2092428     Document Type: Article

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