Spatial filtering for wall-clutter mitigation in through-the-wall radar imaging

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3192-3208

  Yoon, Yeo Sun ^a,b   Amin, Moeness G ^a  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

^b Samsung Thales   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Notch filtering; Spatial processing; Through the wall radar

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SCENES; BLOCK WALLS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LONG DURATION; LOW-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; MULTI-LAYERED; NOTCH FILTERING; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SOLID WALL; SPATIAL FILTERINGS; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPATIAL PROCESSING; THROUGH-THE-WALL RADAR; WALL RADAR IMAGING; WALL REFLECTION; ZERO FREQUENCY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CONCRETE BLOCKS; RADAR; REFLECTION; TARGETS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY; REFLECTIVITY; WALL;

EID: 70349314997     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2019728     Document Type: Article

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