Mitigation of stationary clutter in vital-signmonitoring linear-frequency-modulated continuous-wave radars

IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 138-144

  Muñoz Ferreras, José María ^a   Wang, Guochao ^b   Li, Changzhi ^b   Gómez García, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; DETERIORATION; HIGH PASS FILTERS; MOTION TRACKING; PATIENT MONITORING; RADAR CLUTTER;

DOPPLER PROCESSING; HIGH-PASS FILTERING; LINEAR FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS-WAVE RADARS; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; RADAR SENSORS; RANGE PRECISION; STATIONARY CLUTTER; VITAL SIGN MONITORING;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

EID: 84923217346     PISSN: 17518784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2014.0106     Document Type: Article

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