A portable real-time digital noise radar system for through-the-wall imaging

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 10 PART2, 2012, Pages 4123-4134

  Chen, Pin Heng ^a,b   Shastry, Mahesh C ^a   Lai, Chieh Ping ^c,d   Narayanan, Ram M ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b WaferTech LLC   (United States)

^c Intelligent Automation   (United States)

^d Research in Motion   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler radar; empirical mode decomposition; Hilbert Huang transform (HHT); noise radar; radar clutter; radar detection; though the wall radar

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; HILBERT HUANG TRANSFORMS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MICRO-DOPPLER; MOVING TARGETS; NOISE RADAR TECHNOLOGY; NON-IDEALITIES; RADAR DETECTION; RANDOM NOISE RADAR; RANGE IMAGING; STAND-OFF DISTANCE (SOD); THROUGH THE WALL IMAGING; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY;

DOPPLER RADAR; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

TRACKING RADAR;

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; DIGITAL IMAGE; DOPPLER RADAR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REAL TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84867079855     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2188411     Document Type: Article

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