Performance of Time Domain Migration Influenced by Non-Ideal UWB Antennas

The antennas in ultrawideband (UWB) systems act as filters in both frequency domain and the spatial domain. This means that the antenna influence on a received signal varies with the wave incidence angle. This is particulary important for imaging systems, which make use of the time information of the received signals. However, since the incidence angles of the signals are not a priori known it is difficult to remove this effect from the measured data. To assess the antenna impact on the performance of the imaging system, in this work, simulated scattered signals are used as input for time domain migration algorithm. Then the image features like position errors, shape of the target image, resolution and coverage of an imaging system are extracted and compared for different real UWB antennas.