A portable low-power harmonic radar system and conformal tag for insect tracking

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 444-447

  Psychoudakis, Dimitris ^a   Moulder, William ^a   Chen, Chi Chih ^a   Zhu, Heping ^a   Volakis, John L ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic radar; Insect tracking; Radar; Radio frequency identification (rfid)

Indexed keywords

EMERALD ASH BORER; GHZ BAND; HARMONIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC RADAR; INSECT TRACKING; LOW POWER; RADAR UNITS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; TRACKING RADAR;

RADAR TRACKING;

EID: 71049181222     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2004512     Document Type: Article

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