Sar imaging of suicide bombers wearing concealed explosive threats

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 125, Issue , 2012, Pages 255-272

  Martinez Lorenzo J A ^a   Quivira, F ^a   Rappaport, C M ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOMBERS; DECONVOLUTION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EXPLOSIVES; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM; ELECTROMAGNETIC CODES; EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS; MAGNITUDE INFORMATION; MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR; MULTIPLE TRANSMITTERS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84857984685     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/pier11120518     Document Type: Article

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