Radar penetration imaging using ultra-wideband (UWB) random noise waveforms

IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 143-148

  Narayanan, R M ^a   Xu, X ^a   Henning, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

RADAR PENETRATION IMAGING; RANDOM NOISE RADAR; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADAR;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 3242808158     PISSN: 13502395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-rsn:20040418     Document Type: Article

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