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In order to counteract such drawbacks, we have recently introduced a microwave imaging algorithm that looks for the scattering targets in terms of equivalent surface currents supported over a given reference plane. While this method is suited to detect shallowly buried targets, it allows one to independently process all frequency data, and hence the source and the receivers do not need to be synchronized. Moreover, spatial data can be reduced to a large extent, without any aliasing artifacts, by properly combining single-frequency reconstructions. In this paper, we validate such an approach by experimental measurements. In particular, the experimental test site consists of a sand box in open air where metallic plate targets are shallowly buried a (few cm) under the air\/soil interface. The investigated region is illuminated by a fixed transmitting horn antenna, whereas the scattered field is collected over a planar measurement aperture at a fixed height from the air-sand interface. 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