Profiling the rough surface by migration

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 258-262

  Feng, Xuan ^a   Sato, Motoyuki ^b   Liu, Cai ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Migration; Rough surfaces; Topography

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; PIXELS; RADAR; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

DIFFRACTION WAVES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); MIGRATION; MIGRATION TECHNIQUE; RADAR RETURNS; ROUGH SURFACES; SURFACE AREA;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 85042621464     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2011922     Document Type: Article

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