TWI for an unknown symmetric lossless wall

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2876-2886

  Solimene, Raffaele ^a   Di Napoli, Rosario ^b   Soldovieri, Francesco ^b   Pierri, Rocco ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Linear inverse scattering problem; obstacle estimation; singular value decomposition; through wall imaging (TWI)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; LINEAR INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEM; LOSSLESS; MULTI-STATIC; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; OBSTACLE ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION SCHEME; SINGULAR VALUES; SYNTHETIC DATA; THROUGH-WALL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

ESTIMATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SCATTERING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

RETAINING WALLS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; SCATTERING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79960930309     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2110656     Document Type: Article

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