A novel method for automatic detection of trapped victims by ultrawideband radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3132-3142

  Xu, Yanyun ^a   Wu, Shiyou ^a   Chen, Chao ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Fang, Guangyou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Clustering; constant false alarm rate (CFAR); life detection; life sign; trapped victim; ultrawideband (UWB) radar

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; LIFE DETECTION; LIFE SIGN; TRAPPED VICTIM; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ERRORS;

RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; DETECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84864283469     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2178248     Document Type: Article

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