A coherent model of forest propagation - Application to detection and localization of targets using the DORT method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1048-1057

  Ziadé, Yoummi ^a   Roussel, Héléne ^b   Lesturgie, Marc ^c   Tabbara, Walid ^c,d  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Decomposition of time reversal operator (DORT); Detection; Experimental results; Forest model; Multiple scattering

Indexed keywords

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

DECOMPOSITION OF TIME-REVERSAL OPERATOR; FOREST MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 42549165577     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.919150     Document Type: Article

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