Frequency band selection of radars for buried object detection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 I, 1999, Pages 838-845

  Cherniakov, Mikhail ^a   Donskoi, Lidia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Radar resolution; Radar signal processing; Stepped frequency radar; Ultrawideband signals

Indexed keywords

BURIED OBJECT DETECTION; FREQUENCY BAND SELECTION; RADAR RESOLUTION; ULTRAWIDEBAND SIGNALS;

OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0033101399     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752200     Document Type: Article

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