Automotive Radar: A Brief Review

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1974, Pages 804-822

  Grimes, Dale M ^a   Jones, Trevor Owen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE RADAR;

RADAR;

AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 0016071552     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1974.9520     Document Type: Article

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