• DocumentCode
    2033357
  • Title

    Beam width robustness of a 670 GHz imaging radar

  • Author

    Cooper, K.B. ; Llombart, N. ; Dengler, R.J. ; Siegel, P.H.

  • Author_Institution
    Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    14-18 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    611
  • Lastpage
    612
  • Abstract
    Detection of a replica bomb belt concealed on a mannequin at 4 m standoff range is achieved using a 670 GHz imaging radar. At a somewhat larger standoff range of 4.6 m, the radar´s beam width increases substantially, but the through-shirt image quality remains good. This suggests that a relatively modest increase in aperture size over the current design will be sufficient to detect person-borne concealed weapons at ranges exceeding 25 meters.
  • Keywords
    radar imaging; aperture size; beam width robustness; frequency 670 GHz; image quality; imaging radar; Apertures; Bandwidth; Belts; Diffraction; Image resolution; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Radar scattering; Robustness; Weapons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, 2009. ICEAA '09. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3385-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3386-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEAA.2009.5297263
  • Filename
    5297263