New approach for target locations in the presence of wall ambiguities

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 301-315

  Wang, Genyuan ^a   Amin, Moeness G ^a   Zhang, Yimin ^a  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ESTIMATION; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR IMAGING; TRANSCEIVERS;

ARRAY STRUCTURE; TARGET LOCATION ESTIMATION; TARGET POSITIONS; WALL AMBIGUITIES;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 33644908754     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2006.1603424     Document Type: Article

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