Efficient method of TOA estimation for through wall imaging by UWB radar

Proceeedings of The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 101-104

  Aftanas, Michal ^a   Rovňáková, Jana ^a   Drutarovský, Miloš ^a   Kocur, Dušan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATION COMPLEXITIES; COMPUTATION METHODS; CONSTANT VELOCITY MODELS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; EFFICIENT METHODS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; ITERATION PROCESSES; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; LAYER METHODS; LAYER MODELS; M SEQUENCES; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OBJECT IMAGING; OBJECT SHAPES; POSITION ESTIMATIONS; REALTIME HARDWARES; SAR DATUMS; THROUGH WALLS; TIME OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATIONS; TOA ESTIMATIONS; TWO LAYERS; UWB RADAR SYSTEMS; UWB RADARS;

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EID: 56749148330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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