Through-Wall Bio-Radiolocation With UWB Impulse Radar: Observation, Simulation and Signal Extraction

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 791-798

  Liu, Lanbo ^a   Liu, Zijian ^a   Barrowes, Benjamin E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical signal processing; finite difference methods; ground penetrating radar; ultra wideband antennas

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CENTRAL FREQUENCY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HILBERT HUANG TRANSFORMS; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN RESPIRATION; IMPULSE RADAR SYSTEM; IMPULSE RADARS; LIFE DETECTION; NONSTATIONARY DATA; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; PROCESSING APPROACH; RELIABLE DETECTION; SIGNAL EXTRACTION; THROUGH WALLS; ULTRA WIDEBAND ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA HANDLING; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADIO NAVIGATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

RADAR ANTENNAS;

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MEDICINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESPIRATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 83655183746     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2011.2157461     Document Type: Article

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