Detection of breathing and heartbeat through snow using a microwave transceiver

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-59

  Pieraccini, Massimiliano ^a   Luzi, Guido ^a   Dei, Devis ^a   Pieri, Lapo ^a   Atzeni, Cario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomedical signal detection; Radar; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; RADAR SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL DETECTION; CONTINUOUS-WAVE MICROWAVE TRANSCEIVERS;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 38349164110     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.907421     Document Type: Article

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