A high-range-accuracy and high-sensitivity harmonic radar using pulse pseudorandom code for bee searching

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 666-675

  Tsai, Zuo Min ^a,b   Jau, Pei Hung ^b   Kuo, Nai Chung ^a,c   Kao, Jui Chi ^a   Lin, Kun You ^a   Chang, Fan Ren ^b   Yang, En Cheng ^a   Wang, Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic radar; pseudorandom code (PRN code); sensitivity; transponder

Indexed keywords

COMPACT ANTENNA; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED; DETECTION RANGE; FIELD TESTING; HARMONIC RADAR; HIGH RANGE ACCURACY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; NOISE LEVELS; POSITIONING TECHNIQUES; PRN CODE; PSEUDO RANDOM CODES; SENSITIVITY; TOPOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSMISSION-LINE; TRANSMITTING POWER;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION); TRANSPONDERS;

RADAR;

EID: 84872859185     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2230020     Document Type: Article

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