Imaging through unknown walls using different standoff distances

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4015-4025

  Wang, Genyuan ^a   Amin, Moeness G ^a  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofocusing; Radar imaging; Through the wall; Wideband beamforming

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOCUSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

AUTOFOCUSING; IMAGE SEQUENCE; TARGET POSITION; THROUGH-THE-WALL IMAGING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33749411565     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.879325     Document Type: Article

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