Visualization and Data Analysis Techniques for Ultra-Wideband Wide-Angle Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

Abstract

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has designed, developed, and constructed an ultra-wideband synthetic aperture (UWB SAR) imaging radar to detect obscured targets, such as vehicles concealed by foliage and objects buried underground. As part of this effort, ARL has developed the software called UWBView to support the study of this imaging radar. The software can be employed in both field test and laboratory situations. In a field test, it provides a tool to perform certain signal processing tasks and to quickly assess radar data quality. In the research environment, it provides analysts with data visualization and analysis capabilities to support the phenomenological studies of targets and clutter. In a data processing environment, the software performs data and signal processing tasks. This report discusses the current software features and sample studies of UWB radar data using the software.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA369660

Entities

People

  • Lam M. Nguyen

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Data Visualization
  • Detection
  • Dynamic Range
  • Frequency Bands
  • Geometry
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Image Processing
  • Operating Systems
  • Radar
  • Scattering
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Software Engineering.