An ultrawide-band microwave radar sensor for nondestructive evaluation of pavement subsurface

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 942-949

  Park, Joongsuk ^a,b   Nguyen, Cam ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (South Korea)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation of civil infrastructures; Microwave sensors; Nondestructive evaluation; Stepped frequency radar; Ultrawide band (UWB) systems

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE; MICROWAVE SENSORS; STEPPED-FREQUENCY RADAR; ULTRA-WIDE BAND (UWB) SYSTEMS;

CHARACTERIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RADAR;

SENSORS;

EID: 27744449678     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2005.851002     Document Type: Article

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