Use of a frequency-hopping radar for imaging and motion detection through walls

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1402-1408

  Hunt, Allan R ^a  

^a AKELA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous wave (CW); Frequency agile; Through wall imaging

Indexed keywords

AGILE RADARS; CONCRETE WALLS; CONTINUOUS WAVE (CW); FIELD TESTING; FREQUENCY AGILE; FREQUENCY-HOPPING; MOTION DETECTIONS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OPERATIONAL NEEDS; SOFTWARE CONTROLS; STATIC AND DYNAMICS; SYSTEM OPERATIONS; THROUGH WALLS; THROUGH-WALL IMAGING;

ABILITY TESTING; AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE TESTING; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; RETAINING WALLS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

RADAR IMAGING;

BUILDING; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; DETECTION METHOD; MOTILITY; RADAR IMAGERY; WALL;

EID: 67349174971     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2016084     Document Type: Article

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