학술논문

MAP image reconstruction for land mine and IED detection using ground penetrating radar
Document Type
Conference
Source
2013 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2013 IEEE. :695-698 Dec, 2013
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Density functional theory
Ground penetrating radar
Signal processing algorithms
Noise
Radar imaging
Receiving antennas
Vectors
Language
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce an iterative maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm that reconstructs reflectance images from ground penetrating radar (GPR) data. Typically, the scene of interest (SOI) being illuminated by the GPR contains only a few electromagnetic wave scatterers. We account for this prior information through the use of a novel sparsity-promoting density function, which we call the Butterworth prior. The Butterworth prior can mimic the Dirac Delta function or a uniform density function, and possesses the added benefit of mathematical tractability. We have tested our algorithm on real data provided by the US Army Research Laboratory.