Advanced Narrowband Electromagnetic Size and Shape Determination

Abstract

This report discusses a fundamental radar imaging problem for narrowband electromagnetic waves that extends the recent results originally obtained in [1, 2] in the scalar, or acoustic, setting. In particular we demonstrate the ability to efficiently image three-dimensional convex conducting bodies by using the knowledge of the scattered electric field for one fixed monochromatic illumination of the target. In this problem our knowledge of the scattered electric wave is understood to be in the form of measurements of the amplitude and phase of the tangential components of the radiated electric field (generated by the radar target) on a finite two-dimensional array. We also provide a more general version of this streamlined result that describes imaging of multiply connected nonconvex objects with the same measurements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 15, 2008
Accession Number
ADA477065

Entities

People

  • S. Kusiak

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Differential Equations
  • Electric Fields
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • Imaging Techniques
  • Integral Equations
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Narrowband
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Power Spectra
  • Radiation
  • Scattering
  • Spectra
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Systems Analysis and Design