Synthetic aperture beamformer for imaging through a dielectric wall

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 271-283

  Ahmad, Fauzia ^a   Amin, Moeness G ^a   Kassam, Saleem A ^b  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE BEAMFORMER; THROUGH-THE-WALL IMAGING (TWI) SYSTEM;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 18844460673     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2005.1413761     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Ferris, D. D., Jr., and Currie, N. C. A survey of current technologies for through-the-wall surveillance (TWS). Proceedings of SPIE, 3577 (Nov. 1998), 62-72.
2. Ferris, D. D., Jr., and Currie, N. C. Microwave and millimeter-wave systems for wall penetration. Proceedings of SPIE, 3375 (Apr. 1998), 269-279.
3. Nag, S., Fluhler, H., and Barnes, M. Preliminary interferometric images of moving targets obtained using a time-modulated ultra-wide band through-wall penetration radar. In Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, May 2001, 64-69.
4. Wild, N. C., Felber, F., Treadaway, M., Doft, F., Breuner, D., and Lutjens, S. Ultrasonic through-the wall surveillance system. Proceedings of SPIE, 4232 (2001), 167-176.
5. Falconer, D. G., Steadman, K. N., and Watters, D. G. Through-the wall differential radar. Proceedings of SPIE, 2938 (Nov. 1996), 147-151.
6. Greneker, E. F. RADAR flashlight for through-the-wall detection of humans. Proceedings of SPIE, 3375 (Apr. 1998), 280-285.
7. Black, J. D. Motion and ranging sensor through-the-wall surveillance system. Proceedings of SPIE, 4708 (2002), 114-121.
8. Hunt, A. R. Stepped-frequency CW radar for concealed weapon detection and through-the-wall surveillance. Proceedings of SPIE, 4708 (2002), 99-105.
9. Nag, S., Barnes, M. A., Payment, T., and Holladay, G. An ultra-wideband through-the-wall radar for detecting the motion of people in real time. Proceedings of SPIE, 4744 (2002), 48-57.
10. Falconer, D. G., Ficklin, R. W., and Konolige, K. G. Detection, location, and identification of building occupants using a robot-mounted through-wall radar. Proceedings of SPIE, 4037 (2000), 72-81.
11. Hoctor, R. T., and Kassam, S. A. The unifying role of the coarray in aperture synthesis for coherent and incoherent imaging. Proceedings of IEEE, 78, 4 (Apr. 1990), 735-752.
12. Ahmad, F., and Kassam, S. A. Coarray analysis of the wide-band point spread function for active array imaging. Signal Processing, 81 (Jan. 2001), 99-115.
13. Luthra, A. K., Kassam, S. A., and Bernardi, R. B. Body imaging using vectorial addition of acoustic reflection to achieve effect of scanning beam continuously focused in range. U.S. Patent 4,604,697, 1986.
14. Hoctor, R. T, and Kassam, S. A. Array redundancy for active line arrays. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 5, 7 (1996), 1179-1183.
15. Ahmad, F., Kassam, S. A., Frazer, G. J., and Amin, M. G. Aperture synthesis for a through-the-wall imaging system. In Proceedings of ISSPIT02, Dec. 2002.
16. Benjamin, R., Craddock, I. J., McCutcheon, E., and Nilavalan, R. Through-wall imaging using real-aperture radar. In Proceedings of URSI General Assembly, Aug. 2002.
17. Frazier, L. M. Radar surveillance through solid materials. Proceedings of SPIE, 2938 (Nov. 1996), 139-146.
18. Minoux, M. Mathematical Programming: Theory and Algorithms. New York: Wiley, 1986.
19. Ahmad, F., Frazer, G. J., Kassam, S. A., and Amin, M. G. (2004) Design and implementation of near-field, wideband synthetic aperture beamformers. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 40, 1 (Jan. 2004), 206-220.