Ultra-wideband Radar for Building Interior Imaging

Abstract

This paper presents both numeric simulations and radar measurements related to through the wall imaging technologies. We present synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images obtained by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Forward-Looking Radar system during field experiments and compare those with the results of our Xpatch computer models. We also demonstrate a computational approach based on the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) algorithm in order to obtain the SAR images of a complex room. Our goals are both to validate the numerical simulations techniques and to understand the radar scattering phenomenology in this environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA503440

Entities

People

  • Calvin D. Le
  • Traian V. Dogaru

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Cross Polarization
  • Data Processing
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Finite Difference Time Domain
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Radar
  • Scattering
  • Simulations
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Time Domain

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Radar Systems Engineering.