Chaos based UWB imaging radar for homeland security

Author

Venkatasubramanian, Vijayaraghavan ; Liu, Peiguo ; Leung, Henry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

1-3 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

351

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel chaos based ultra-wideband (UWB) imaging radar for surveillance applications in a closed environment. The proposed chaos based UWB imaging radar has good range resolution and excellent range-sidelobe suppression characteristics that enhance its imaging performance. The imaging performance of the proposed radar is better than that of the conventional time modulated UWB (TM-UWB) radars in reducing false alarms and in imaging targets closely lying behind the wall. Numerical electromagnetic (EM) simulations using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method illustrate the definite advantages of the proposed radar under different scenarios.

Keywords

chaos; finite difference methods; image resolution; military radar; radar imaging; security; surveillance; time-domain analysis; ultra wideband radar; chaos; finite difference time domain method; homeland security; numerical electromagnetic simulations; range-sidelobe suppression characteristics; surveillance application; ultra-wideband imaging radar; Chaos; Finite difference methods; Image resolution; Numerical simulation; Radar applications; Radar imaging; Surveillance; Terrorism; Ultra wideband radar; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, 2004 IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8643-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIS.2004.1460439

Filename

1460439