Radar detection of moving targets behind corners

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2259-2267

  Sume, Ain ^a   Gustafsson, Magnus ^a   Herberthson, Magnus ^a,b   Jänis, Anna ^a   Nilsson, Stefan ^a   Rahm, Jonas ^a   Örbom, Anders ^a  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Around corner; micro Doppler; object detection; radar measurements; wall material

Indexed keywords

AROUND CORNER; CONCRETE WALL; DETECTION OF MOVING OBJECT; FAST ALGORITHMS; MATERIAL MEASUREMENTS; MICRO-DOPPLER; MOVING TARGET INDICATION TECHNIQUES; MOVING TARGETS; OBJECT DETECTION; PROPAGATION MECHANISM; RADAR DETECTION; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; STEPPED FREQUENCY RADAR; TARGET DETECTION; THROUGH THE WALL; WALL MATERIAL; WALL REFLECTION; WAVE COMPONENTS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT; TARGET TRACKING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TRACKING RADAR;

ALGORITHM; CONCRETE; DIFFRACTION; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; RADAR IMAGERY; WALL;

EID: 79957643741     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2096471     Document Type: Article

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