Title :
Illumination properties of multistatic planar arrays in near-field imaging applications
Author :
Ahmed, Sherif Sayed ; Schiessl, Andreas ; Schmidt, Lorenz-Peter
Author_Institution :
Microwave Eng. & High Freq. Technol. (LHFT), Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
fDate :
Sept. 30 2010-Oct. 1 2010
Abstract :
The achievable illumination quality in microwave and millimeter-wave images using multistatic planar arrays is discussed. The geometrical relations between the array effective aperture and the illumination boundaries caused by the specular reflections are introduced. Afterwards, the variations in the processing gain due to diffuse and specular reflections are analyzed and verified experimentally.
Keywords :
array signal processing; microwave imaging; millimetre wave imaging; reflection; illumination; microwave images; millimeter-wave images; multistatic planar arrays; near-field imaging; specular reflections; Apertures; Arrays; Imaging; Lighting; Metals; Planar arrays; Radar imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2010 European
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7234-5