Full-wave modeling of near-field radar data for planar layered media reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2295-2303

  Lambot, Sebastien ^a   Andre, Frederic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antenna modeling; Green's functions; ground penetrating radar (GPR); near field; planar layered media

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANTENNA CHARACTERISTICS; ANTENNA MODEL; DIGITAL SOIL MAPPINGS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; NEAR-FIELD; PLANAR LAYERED MEDIA; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

DIGITAL MAPPING; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; RECONSTRUCTION; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84896314941     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2259243     Document Type: Article

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