Through-Wall Imaging with Uwb Radar System

" If we save even one life, we have been cost effective. " Dr. Rochelle Dicker Acknowledgement I give a sincere gratitude to all the people who made it possible for me to write this thesis, especially to my family. I also want to thank to the doc. Ing. Miloš Drutarovsk´y, CSc. for my supervising, to the Dr. Jürgen Sachs and Dr. Rudolf Zetik for their technical and theoretical suggestions and remarks, and to the prof. Ing. Dušan Kocur, CSc. for his support.

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