Automatic classification of ground-penetrating-radar signals for railway-ballast assessment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 2, 2011, Pages 3961-3972

  Shao, Wenbin ^a   Bouzerdoum, Abdesselam ^a   Phung, Son Lam ^a   Su, Lijun ^a,b   Indraratna, Buddhima ^a   Rujikiatkamjorn, Cholachat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) processing; railway ballast assessment; support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION RATES; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; MAGNITUDE SPECTRUM; RAILWAY-BALLAST ASSESSMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; RADAR; RAILROADS; RATING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

DATA ACQUISITION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MAGNITUDE; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 80053566490     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2128328     Document Type: Article

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