Narrowband frequency-hopping radars for the range estimation of moving and vibrating targets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6947, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Yimin ^a   Amin, Moeness G ^a   Ahmad, Fauzia ^a  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler radar; Frequency hopping; Moving target localization; Narrowband radar; Through the wall; Time frequency representation; Urban sensing

Indexed keywords

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; ACCURATE ESTIMATION; DOPPLER; DUAL FREQUENCY; FLEXIBLE BANDWIDTH; LOW PROBABILITY OF INTERCEPT (LPI); MOVING TARGETS; MULTIPLE TARGETS; NARROW BANDS; NARROWBAND FREQUENCY; NON-LINEAR MOTIONS; PHASE DIFFERENCES; PHASE UNWRAPPING; RADAR CROSS SECTIONS (RCS); RADAR SENSOR TECHNOLOGY; RANGE ACCURACY; RANGE ESTIMATION; TIME FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TIME-FREQUENCY SIGNAL REPRESENTATION; URBAN SENSING; VIBRATION MOTIONS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DETECTORS; ESTIMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY HOPPING; NIOBIUM; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; RADIO; RANGE FINDERS; SENSORS; TARGETS; TECHNOLOGY; TRACKING RADAR;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 44949136524     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777859     Document Type: Conference Paper

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