3-D ghost imaging with microwave radar

In this paper, we demonstrate a new three-dimensional (3-D) radar imaging mechanism borrowing the concept of optical ghost imaging (GI). High range resolution is achieved by transmitting wideband electromagnetic (EM) signal, while high resolution in the orthogonal plane is obtained by correlating the echoes with radar antenna´s stochastically fluctuating radiation pattern which can be generated with a 2-D phased array. This new concept of radar imaging takes no advantage of relative motion between the target and radar platform. Moreover, by combining the compressive sensing (CS) theory, our proposed imaging system is capable of realizing super-resolution with fewer data samples. Numerical simulation is given to validate the proposal.