A novel autofocusing approach for real-time through-wall imaging under unknown wall characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 423-431

  Li, Lianlin ^a   Zhang, Wenji ^a   Li, Fang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

Autofocusing; Real time; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Through wall imaging (TWI); Time reversal

Indexed keywords

AUTO-FOCUSING; COMPUTATION TIME; DYNAMIC IMAGES; FOCUSING TIME; HIGH QUALITY; MULTILAYER GREEN'S FUNCTION; REAL TIME; SCATTERING PROCESS; SIMULATION RESULT; THROUGH-WALL IMAGING; TIME FACTORS; TIME REVERSAL; WALL AMBIGUITIES; WALL PARAMETERS;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; QUANTUM THEORY; RADAR; RETAINING WALLS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ENTROPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GREEN FUNCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 73249134537     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2024686     Document Type: Article

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