Human Body Detection in Wet Snowpack by an FM-CW Radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 186-189

  Yamaguchi, Yoshio ^a   Mitsumoto, Masashi ^a   Sengoku, Masakazu ^a   Abe, Takeo ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS, HORN; FREQUENCY MODULATION; RADAR - SYNTHETIC APERTURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SNOW AND SNOWFALL;

AVALANCHE VICTIMS; FM-CW RADAR; HUMAN BODY DETECTION; RESCUE OPERATIONS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0026705965     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.124231     Document Type: Letter

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