Through wall imaging: Historical perspective and future directions

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5173-5176

  Baranoski, Edward J ^a  

^a DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic tomography; Microwave imaging; Radar

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MICROWAVE IMAGING; RADAR;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 51449104329     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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