UWB MIMO Radar Arrays for Small Area Surveillance Applications

Author

Martinez-Vazquez, A. ; Fortuny-Guasch, J.

Author_Institution

DG Joint Res. Centre, Eur. Comm., Ispra

fYear

2007

fDate

11-16 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of selection of an UWB radar array with multiple transmit and receive antennas (MIMO) for the application of small area surveillance. A comparison of classical radar arrays with a single transmit antenna and those using MIMO arrays is presented through a simulator tool. The simulator allows to define a reference 3-D scenario with a set of point scatterers, and to obtain a synthetic raw data that is then used to form a 3-D image. Different topologies have been tested, showing how MIMO antenna systems provide a narrower beamwidth, higher side-lobes rejection ration and a larger alias-free area.

Keywords

MIMO communication; radar imaging; receiving antennas; search radar; transmitting antennas; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband radar; 3D image; MIMO antenna system; UWB MIMO radar array; alias-free area; multiple receive antenna; multiple transmit antenna; point scatterering; side-lobes rejection ration; small area surveillance application; MIMO; UWB; antenna array; surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2007. EuCAP 2007. The Second European Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

Print_ISBN

978-0-86341-842-6

Type

conf

Filename

4458797