A homomorphic approach for through-wall sensing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1318-1327

  Yacoub, Hany ^a   Sarkar, Tapan K ^b  

^a Anaren Microwave Inc   (United States)

^b Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cepstrum; Homomorphic; Monostatic; Target detection; Target identification; Through wall sensing

Indexed keywords

CEPSTRUM; HOMOMORPHIC; MONOSTATIC; TARGET DETECTION; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; THROUGH-WALL SENSING;

FORESTRY; IMAGE QUALITY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349182322     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2012866     Document Type: Article

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