Piecewise and wiener filter-based sar techniques for monostatic microwave imaging of layered structures

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 282-294

  Fallahpour, Mojtaba ^a   Case, Joseph T ^a   Ghasr, Mohammad Tayeb ^a   Zoughi, R ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

Author keywords

Green's function; layered structures; microwave imaging; nondestructive testing; synthetic aperture radar; Wiener filter deconvolution

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

CLASSICAL SYNTHETIC APERTURES; DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUES; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; LAYERED DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; LAYERED STRUCTURES; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; WIENER FILTERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84892384753     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2287024     Document Type: Article

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