Effects of non-uniform motion in through-the-wall SAR imaging

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3539-3548

  Liu, Xiaoxiang ^a   Leung, Henry ^a   Lampropoulos, George A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b A U G SIGNALS LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Micro Doppler; Non uniform motion; SAR; Target detection; Through the wall radar; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

MICRO-DOPPLER; NON-UNIFORM MOTION; SAR; TARGET DETECTION; THROUGH-THE-WALL RADAR; TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

DOPPLER EFFECT; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TARGET TRACKING; TARGETS;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 70449467050     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2025192     Document Type: Article

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