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Methods for the Electromagnetic Forward Scattering by Buried Objects

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Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar

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Methods developed to solve forward electromagnetic scattering by buried objects are useful tools for interpreting data from Ground Penetrating Radar responses. Time-domain methods, as Finite-Difference Time Domain or space-time integral equations, are well established tools in the modeling impulse Ground Penetrating Radar systems. Integral equation methods, when solved with Method of Moments discretization, lead to dense linear system. Therefore, the implementation of novel approaches approximating the integral equation via series expansions with lower computational complexity is called for. Analytical techniques have the advantage to be accurate and fast, as the geometry of the scattering problem is taken into account by an expansion of the fields in terms of suitable basis functions.

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Ponti, C. (2015). Methods for the Electromagnetic Forward Scattering by Buried Objects. In: Benedetto, A., Pajewski, L. (eds) Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04813-0_8

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