Terahertz radar cross section measurements

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26399-26408

  Iwaszczuk, Krzysztof ^a   Heiselberg, Henning ^b   Uhd Jepsen, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Danish Defense Acquisition and Logistics Organization   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

CROSS-SECTION MEASUREMENT; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; PICOSECOND TIME; PULSE FRONT EXCITATION; SCALE MODELS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ PULSE; TERAHERTZ RADARS; TIME DOMAIN; TIME DOMAIN SYSTEMS;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADAR; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 78650068199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026399     Document Type: Article

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