Through-the-wall imaging using differential SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1289-1296

  Dehmollaian, Mojtaba ^a   Thiel, Michael ^b   Sarabandi, Kamal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Synthetic aperture imaging; Through wall imaging

Indexed keywords

BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTERED SIGNALS; CONCRETE WALLS; CONTINUOUS-WAVE RADARS; CORNER REFLECTORS; IMAGE FORMATIONS; INTEGRATION PROCESS; POINT TARGET RESPONSE; SIGNAL-TO-CLUTTER RATIOS; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; THROUGH-THE-WALL IMAGING; THROUGH-WALL IMAGING; WALL PARAMETERS; WALL REFLECTIONS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS; RETAINING WALLS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ALGORITHM; RADAR IMAGERY; REFLECTANCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WALL;

EID: 67349251895     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2010052     Document Type: Article

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