Development of a three band radar system for detecting trapped alive humans under building ruins

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 49, Issue , 2004, Pages 161-188

  Bimpas, Matthaios ^a   Paraskevopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Nikellis, Konstantinos ^a   Economou, Dimitris P ^a   Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING RUINS; DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS; DOPPLER FREQUENCY SHIFT; HUMAN BODIES; MOVING PARTS; PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 36949021901     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER04030501     Document Type: Article

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