A novel subsurface radar using a short chirp signal to expand the detection range

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E83-B, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2427-2434

  Tomizawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Hirose, Masanobu ^a   Arai, Ikuo ^b   Tanaee, Kazuo ^c  

^a GUNMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delay correlation method; Limiter; Pulse compression; Short chirp; Subsurface radar

Indexed keywords

CHIRP SIGNAL; PULSE COMPRESSION; SUBSURFACE RADAR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; CORRELATORS; DELAY CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LIMITERS; PULSE MODULATION; RADAR REFLECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0034291989     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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