Vehicle classification based on the radar measurement of height profiles

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 245-253

  Urazghildiiev, Ildar ^b   Ragnarsson, Rolf ^c   Ridderström, Pierre ^c   Rydberg, Anders ^a,d   Öjefors, Eric ^d   Wallin, Kjell ^e   Enochsson, Per ^e   Ericson, Magnus ^e   Löfqvist, Göran ^e  

^a IEEE   (Sweden)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c Sensys Traffic AB   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Sensys Traffic AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature extraction; Height profile; Road vehicles; Spread spectrum radar

Indexed keywords

HEIGHT PROFILE; ROAD VEHICLES; SPREAD-SPECTRUM RADAR;

GROUND VEHICLES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SENSORS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 34249886796     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2006.890071     Document Type: Article

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