Building layout and interior target imaging with SAR using an efficient beamformer

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2087-2090

  Zhang, Wenji ^a   Hoorfar, Ahmad ^a   Thajudeen, Christopher ^a  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

Author keywords

building imaging; layered medium; SAR; through the wall imaging

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; BUILDING LAYOUT; FAR FIELD; FFT/IFFT; FOURIER; FREE SPACE; FULL SCALE; HYBRID BEAMFORMING; LAYERED MEDIUM; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SAR; SEARCH AND RESCUE; TARGET IMAGING; THROUGH THE WALL IMAGING; THROUGH WALLS;

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUILDINGS;

EID: 80055022757     PISSN: 15223965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APS.2011.5996921     Document Type: Conference Paper

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