1 Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. 2 The Institute of Geoscience and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, China.
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Ground Penetrating Radar, Qinghai-Tibet Railway Ballast, Permafrost, Predictive Deconvolution
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