Adaptive imaging for forward-looking ground penetrating radar

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 922-936

  Wang, Yanwei ^a   Li, Xi ^b   Sun, Yijun ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Stoica, Petre ^c  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b BECKMAN COULTER INC   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR INTERFERENCE; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA-ADAPTIVE IMAGING; DELAY-AND-SUM (DAS); FORWARD-LOOKING GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR (FLGPR) SYSTEMS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 27844527948     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2005.1541439     Document Type: Article

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