Title :
Beam width robustness of a 670 GHz imaging radar
Author :
Cooper, K.B. ; Llombart, N. ; Dengler, R.J. ; Siegel, P.H.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
Detection of a replica bomb belt concealed on a mannequin at 4 m standoff range is achieved using a 670 GHz imaging radar. At a somewhat larger standoff range of 4.6 m, the radar´s beam width increases substantially, but the through-shirt image quality remains good. This suggests that a relatively modest increase in aperture size over the current design will be sufficient to detect person-borne concealed weapons at ranges exceeding 25 meters.
Keywords :
radar imaging; aperture size; beam width robustness; frequency 670 GHz; image quality; imaging radar; Apertures; Bandwidth; Belts; Diffraction; Image resolution; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Radar scattering; Robustness; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, 2009. ICEAA '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3385-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3386-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICEAA.2009.5297263