DocumentCode :
3339574
Title :
Environmental monitoring with the imaging MIMO radars MIRA-CLE and MIRA-CLE X
Author :
Klare, Jens ; Saalmann, Olaf ; Wilden, Helmut ; Brenner, Andreas R.
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for High Freq. Phys. & Radar Tech. FHR, Wachtberg, Germany
fYear :
2010
fDate :
25-30 July 2010
Firstpage :
3781
Lastpage :
3784
Abstract :
Several applications need imaging sensors for environmental monitoring which can continuously observe an area in a 24/7 mode independently from the weather and other atmospheric obscuration like dust and smoke. Imaging MIMO radar fulfills these requirements and enables the opportunity of low-cost and robust imaging systems by synthesizing many virtual antennas out of just a few real ones. MIRA-CLE is a fully configurable and expandable experimental MIMO radar in Ka-band while MIRA-CLE X works in X-band and is intended to be a low-cost experimental system for long range applications. This paper presents both MIMO radar systems and shows and discusses first imaging results of MIRA-CLE X.
Keywords :
MIMO radar; environmental monitoring (geophysics); radar antennas; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; Ka-band MIMO radar; MIRA-CLE; MIRA-CLE X; X-band MIMO radar; environmental monitoring; imaging MIMO radars; imaging sensors; long range applications; low cost robust imaging systems; virtual antennas; Antenna arrays; Imaging; MIMO; MIMO radar; Radar imaging; Imaging radar; MIMO; MIMO SAR; MIMO radar; Multiple-Input Multiple-Output;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
ISSN :
2153-6996
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5651824
Filename :
5651824
Link To Document :
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