An approach to remove the clutter and detect the target for ultra-wideband through-wall imaging

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 412-419

  Chandra, R ^a   Gaikwad, Abhay N ^a   Singh, Dharmendra ^a   Nigam, M J ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

B scan; C scan; Clutter reduction; Monostatic; Range profile; Singular value decomposition; Size determination; Through wall imaging; UWB

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGING METHOD; RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 62549127739     PISSN: 17422132     EISSN: 17422140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-2132/5/4/005     Document Type: Article

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