Doppler-based detection and tracking of humans in indoor environments

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 345, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 679-699

  Ram, Shobha Sundar ^a   Li, Yang ^a   Lin, Adrian ^a   Ling, Hao ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction of arrival; Doppler radar; Human tracking; Micro Doppler; Spectrogram; Through wall radar

Indexed keywords

DETECTION AND TRACKING; DOPPLER; DOPPLER PROCESSING; FRANKLIN (CO); FREQUENCY DIVERSITIES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; RANGE TRACKING; SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 45849093292     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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