The effects of wall moisture profiles on matched illumination waveforms

Author

Price, Steven ; Donohoe, J. Patrick ; Fairley, Josh R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Mississippi State Univ., Starkville, MS, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

177

Abstract

Improvements in through-the-wall radar imaging (TWRI) rely on understanding the phenomenology of the interaction between the radar signal and the wall structure. Propagation of the pulse through the wall adversely affects the resulting target return signatures through attenuation and time dispersion. One technique of improving TWRI performance is through optimal waveform design. The matched illumination concept has been shown to improve target detection and discrimination for TWRI by optimally shaping the transmission waveform to maximize the signal-to-interference and noise ratio of the radar´s transmitter-receiver pair [H. Estephan et.al, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 48, No. 7, pp. 2930-2941, 2010].

Keywords

moisture; object detection; radar imaging; waveform analysis; TWRI; attenuation; discrimination; matched illumination concept; optimal waveform design; radar signal; signal-to-interference and noise ratio; target detection; target return signatures; through-the-wall radar imaging; time dispersion; transmission waveform; transmitter-receiver pair; wall moisture profiles; wall structure; Computers; Educational institutions; Lighting; Moisture; Radar imaging; Solids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), 2013 USNC-URSI

Conference_Location

Lake Buena Vista, FL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1128-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/USNC-URSI.2013.6715483

Filename

6715483