High-Resolution Imaging Using a Wideband MIMO Radar System With Two Distributed Arrays

Imaging a fast maneuvering target has been an active research area in past decades. Usually, an array antenna with multiple elements is implemented to avoid the motion compensations involved in the inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging. Nevertheless, there is a price dilemma due to the hig...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on image processing Vol. 19; no. 5; pp. 1280 - 1289
Main Authors: Dang-wei Wang, Xiao-yan Ma, Chen, A.-Lei, Yi Su
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.05.2010
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Algorithms
Antenna arrays
Antennas
Aperture antennas
Applied sciences
Arrays
Complexity
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Exact sciences and technology
Hardware
High-resolution imaging
Image Enhancement - methods
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods
Image processing
Imaging
Information, signal and communications theory
Inverse synthetic aperture radar
Inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR)
Mathematical models
MIMO
Miscellaneous
Motion compensation
multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) radar
Production systems
Radar
Radar - instrumentation
Radar antennas
Radar imaging
Radar systems
real aperture radar (RAR)
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Signal processing
Telecommunications and information theory
Transducers
Wideband
MIMO system
High resolution
Moving target
real aperture radar (RAR)
Imager
Algorithm
Implementation
Wide band
Imaging
Radar imaging
Signal processing
Inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR)
Numerical simulation
Motion compensation
multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) radar
Antenna array
Synthetic aperture radar
ISSN:1057-7149, 1941-0042, 1941-0042
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Summary:Imaging a fast maneuvering target has been an active research area in past decades. Usually, an array antenna with multiple elements is implemented to avoid the motion compensations involved in the inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging. Nevertheless, there is a price dilemma due to the high level of hardware complexity compared to complex algorithm implemented in the ISAR imaging system with only one antenna. In this paper, a wideband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system with two distributed arrays is proposed to reduce the hardware complexity of the system. Furthermore, the system model, the equivalent array production method and the imaging procedure are presented. As compared with the classical real aperture radar (RAR) imaging system, there is a very important contribution in our method that the lower hardware complexity can be involved in the imaging system since many additive virtual array elements can be obtained. Numerical simulations are provided for testing our system and imaging method.
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ISSN:1057-7149
1941-0042
1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2009.2039623