An UWB Wall Scanner Based on a Shape Estimating SAR Algorithm

Author

Hantscher, Sebastian ; Reisenzahn, Alexander ; Diskus, Christian G.

Author_Institution

Linz Univ., Linz

fYear

2007

fDate

3-8 June 2007

Firstpage

1463

Lastpage

1466

Abstract

This paper describes a complete pulse based high-resolution radar system. This includes the transmitting and receiving unit as well as the signal processing of the down-sampled echoes. The main focus of the hardware design was on the usage of low-cost components. The signal evaluation is based on the shape reconstruction of simple targets in order to use the proposed radar system for wall scanning applications, e. g. the detection of water pipes.

Keywords

signal processing; synthetic aperture radar; ultra wideband radar; UWB wall scanner; down-sampled echo; pulse based high-resolution radar system; receiving unit; shape estimating SAR algorithm; shape reconstruction; signal evaluation; signal processing; transmitting unit; ultra wideband radar; wall scanning application; Bandwidth; Hardware; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Radar antennas; Radar applications; Radar signal processing; Sampling methods; Shape; Ultra wideband radar; UWB radar; monopulse radar; sampling down converter; sequential sampling; target recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium, 2007. IEEE/MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0688-9

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380528

Filename

4264115