Noise-correlating radar based on retrodirective antennas

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 472-479

  Gupta, Shalabh ^a   Brown, Elliot R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); PHASE SHIFTERS; TARGET TRACKING;

NOISE CORRELATION TECHNIQUE; RETRODIRECTIVITY;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548172963     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2007.4285347     Document Type: Article

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