Through-wall tracking of human movers using joint doppler and array processing

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 537-541

  Ram, Shobha Sundar ^a   Ling, Hao ^a  

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

Author keywords

CLEAN; Doppler; RELAX; Spatial beamforming

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; BEAMFORMING; DETECTORS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; RADAR; STANDARDS; TRACKING RADAR; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

DOPPLER; DOPPLER PROCESSING; HUMAN SUBJECTS; LINE-OF SIGHT (LOS); MULTIPLE TARGETS; SIDE-LOBES; SPATIAL BEAMFORMING; STANDARD BEAMFORMING; THROUGH-WALL (TW);

RADAR TRACKING;

EID: 47849083464     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.924002     Document Type: Article

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