A microwave radar technique for dynamic testing of large structures

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1603-1609

  Pieraccini, Massimiliano ^a   Luzi, Guido ^a   Mecatti, Daniele ^a   Noferini, Linhsia ^a   Atzeni, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Large structure; Microwave; Nondestructive testing; Radar; Remote monitoring

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE HOLOGRAPHY; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MICROWAVE RADARS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038056153     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.810145     Document Type: Article

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