Ultra-wideband multifunctional communications/radar system

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1431-1436

  Saddik, George N ^a,b   Singh, Rahul S ^a,b   Brown, Elliott R ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirp; Communications; Radar; RF

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS CHIRP; FALSE ALARMS; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BANDPASS FILTERS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; PROBABILITY; RADAR SYSTEMS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 34547291939     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.900343     Document Type: Article

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