Subsurface utility extraction and characterization: Combining GPR symmetry and polarization attributes

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 736-746

  BöNiger, Urs ^a   Tronicke, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multicomponent ground penetrating radar (GPR) data; Phase symmetry; Pipe detection; Polarization analysis; Principal component analysis (PCA)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; EXTRACTION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION; RADAR;

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; PIPE DETECTION; POLARIZATION ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION CHARACTERISTICS; POLARIZATION PHENOMENA; SURROUNDING MATERIALS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053174896     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2163413     Document Type: Article

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