Adaptive CLEAN with target refocusing for through-wall image improvement

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 155-162

  Chang, Paul C ^a   Burkholder, Robert J ^a   Volakis, John L ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Image restoration; Parameter estimation; Radar imaging; Radar signal processing; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

CLEAN ALGORITHMS; DELAY SPREAD; EXTERIOR WALLS; EXTERNAL WALLS; HIGH FREQUENCY; IMAGE IMPROVEMENT; IMAGE RESTORATION; MEASURED DATA; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; RAY-TRACING CODES; SIDE LOBES; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; THROUGH WALLS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR; RESTORATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 73949136531     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2036131     Document Type: Article

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