Comparison of UWB SAR and MIMO-based short-range imaging radars

Author

Savelyev, T.G. ; Zhuge, X. ; Yarovoy, A.G. ; Ligthart, L.P. ; Levitas, B.

Author_Institution

Int. Res. Centre for Telecommun. & Radar, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2009

fDate

Sept. 30 2009-Oct. 2 2009

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

112

Abstract

This paper compares and analyzes the imaging capability of two ultra-wideband radar systems which are based on synthetic aperture and sparse planar array respectively. The systems comprise the same 3.1-10.6 GHz antennas and video-impulse electronics. The SAR uses a transmit-receive antenna pair installed on 2D mechanical scanner, while the array represents an multiple input multiple output (MIMO) structure with four transmit and sixteen receive antennas. In both systems digital beamforming is applied to the acquired data. The comparison bases on measurements conducted for the same scenarios.

Keywords

MIMO communication; array signal processing; planar antenna arrays; radar imaging; receiving antennas; synthetic aperture radar; transmitting antennas; ultra wideband radar; MIMO-based short-range imaging radar; UWB SAR; digital beamforming; frequency 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz; multiple input multiple output structure; sparse planar array; synthetic aperture radar; transmit-receive antenna; ultra-wideband radar system; video-impulse electronics; Image analysis; MIMO; Planar arrays; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Receiving antennas; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitting antennas; Ultra wideband radar; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2009. EuRAD 2009. European

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4747-3

Type

conf

Filename

5307139