Ultrawideband Noise Radar Tomography: Principles, Simulation, and Experimental Validation

Abstract

The paper introduces the principles, simulation results, and hardware implementation of ultrawideband (UWB) noise radar for obtaining tomographic images of various scenarios of rotating cylindrical objects using independent and identically distributed UWB noise waveforms. A UWB noise radar was designed to transmit multiple UWB random noise waveforms over the 3–5 GHz frequency range and to measure the backward scattering data for the validation of the theoretical analysis and numerical simulation results. The reconstructed tomographic images of the rotating cylindrical objects based on experimental results are seen to be in good agreement with the simulation results, which demonstrates the capability of UWB noise radar for complete two-dimensional tomographic image reconstruction of various shaped metallic and dielectric target objects.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Apr 10, 2016
Source ID
10.1155/2016/5787895

Entities

People

  • Hee Jung Shin
  • Mark A. Asmuth
  • Muralidhar (Murali) Rangaswamy
  • Ram M Narayanan

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Air Force Research Laboratory
  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Medical Imaging.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.