Investigation of air/ground reflection and antenna beamwidth for compressive sensing SFCW GPR migration imaging

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3143-3149

  Qu, Lele ^a   Yang, Tianhong ^a  

^a SHENYANG AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air ground reflection; antenna beamwidth; compressive sensing; ground penetrating radar (GPR); stepped frequency

Indexed keywords

AIR/GROUND; ANTENNA BEAMWIDTH; COMPRESSIVE SENSING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); STEPPED FREQUENCY;

ANTENNAS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION;

BEAM FORMING NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ANTENNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD;

EID: 84864280432     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2179049     Document Type: Article

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