SAR images of rooms and buildings based on FDTD computer models

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1388-1401

  Dogaru, Traian ^a   Le, Calvin ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics (CEMs); Radar imaging; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ASPECT ANGLES; CLUTTER REJECTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS (CEMS); COMPUTER MODELS; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; IMAGING RADARS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OPERATIONAL MODES; RADAR ENGINEERS; RADAR RETURNS; SAR IMAGE FORMATIONS; SAR IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; THROUGH THE WALLS; WALL MATERIALS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BUILDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 67349119046     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2013841     Document Type: Article

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