Title :
UWB impulse radar for three dimensional through-the-wall radar imaging
Author :
Kumar, T. Kishore ; Kumar, P. Kishore
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Warangal, India
Abstract :
Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology shows a new way for Through-the-wall radar imaging which is of very high importance in urban warfare. Three dimensional imaging gives more information of the scene compared to the conventional two dimensional. This paper makes use of impulse like signals which suites as best waveform for UWB transmission, and discusses the need for raw radar processing. It extends the back projection approach for three dimensional target imaging. Major part of the clutter is removed by selecting the voxels that were of targets. The selection is done by the received signal strength at that voxel. The threshold limit after normalizing the signal intensity is taken as 0.75. The simulation results show the close resemblance of the three dimensional image to its original shape and this closeness is observed to be as 53 %.
Keywords :
radar imaging; ultra wideband radar; UWB impulse radar; UWB transmission; back projection approach; clutter removal; impulse-like signals; raw radar processing; received signal strength; three-dimensional target imaging; three-dimensional through-the-wall radar imaging; ultrawideband technology; urban warfare; Bandwidth; Crosstalk; Delay; Imaging; Radar imaging; Receivers; Ultra wideband radar; Impulse based signals; Synthetic Aperture; Three dimensional imaging; Through-the-wall; Ultra-Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems (COMCAS), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tel Aviv
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1692-8
DOI :
10.1109/COMCAS.2011.6105810