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Ground penetrating radar image processing towards underground utilities detection for robotic applications

Skartados et al., 2018

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547886197420997061
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Skartados E
Kostavelis I
Giakoumis D
Simi A
Manacorda G
Ioannidis D
Tzovaras D
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2018 International Conference on Control, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Optimization (ICCAIRO)

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During the last decades, the development of powerful novel sensor topologies, namely Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) antennas, gave a thrust in the modeling of underground space. Subsurface mapping is of particular importance for future robotic applications that …
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