Through-wall synthetic aperture radar based on finite beamwidth processing

Standard backprojection technique is used in typical through-wall synthetic aperture radar (TWSAR) image, it implicitly assumes infinite beamwidth, whereby the entire target area is illuminated and returns are collected from all points in the imaging grid, and this decreases the efficiency of the algorithm by summing over unnecessary grid points. In order to eliminate the disadvantage, the time-domain backprojection method based on finite beamwidth processing is proposed in the paper. The processing method is designed to be more physically realistic by accounting for the actual antenna pattern. Simulation results show that depending on the width of the effective beam, the number of processing loops can be reduced by up to 50%, while still maintaining good image quality in terms of the reconstructed target response.