Precise distance and velocity measurement for real time locating in multipath environments using a frequency-modulated continuous-wave secondary radar approach

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2329-2339

  Roehr, Sven ^a,b   Gulden, Peter ^a   Vossiek, Martin ^b  

^a Symeo GmbH   (Germany)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Radar distance measurement; Radar navigation; Radar position measurement; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; POSITION MEASUREMENT; RADAR; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONTINUOUS; DOPPLER FREQUENCY SHIFTS; EVALUATING; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; LOCATING; MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE UNITS; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPATH TRANSMISSIONS; PRECISE; RADAR DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; RADAR NAVIGATION; RADAR POSITION MEASUREMENT; RADAR SIGNALS; REAL TIMES; RELATIVE VELOCITIES; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 54049098725     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2003137     Document Type: Article

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