A 77-GHz FMCW MIMO radar based on an SiGe single-chip transceiver

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1020-1035

  Feger, Reinhard ^a   Wagner, Christoph ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^a   Scheiblhofer, Stefan ^a   Jager, Herbert ^b   Stelzer, Andreas ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b DICE GmbH & Co KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Array processing; FM radar; Radar

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; ASSEMBLED SYSTEM; FM RADAR; FOUR-CHANNEL; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS-WAVE RADARS; MIMO RADAR; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT TECHNIQUES; NONUNIFORM; PATCH ANTENNA ARRAYS; PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES; PROTOTYPE SENSOR; RADAR TRANSCEIVERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SINGLE-CHIP; SINGLE-CHIP TRANSCEIVERS; SPARSE ANTENNA ARRAY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ARRAY PROCESSING; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSCEIVERS;

RADAR;

EID: 67649268412     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2017254     Document Type: Article

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