Point coordinates extraction from localized hyperbolic reflections in GPR data

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 144, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-17

  Ristić, Aleksandar ^a   Bugarinović, Željko ^a   Vrtunski, Milan ^a   Govedarica, Miro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Automated extraction; GPR; Hyperbolic reflection; MATLAB; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; EXTRACTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MATLAB; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTOMATED DETECTION; AUTOMATED EXTRACTION; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; MATLAB ENVIRONMENT; STOPPING CRITERIA; TRAINED NEURAL NETWORKS; UNDERGROUND UTILITIES; UTILITY DETECTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COORDINATE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR;

EID: 85021831896     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2017.06.003     Document Type: Article

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