Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost Real-Time Ultra-Wide Band See-Through-Wall Imaging Radar System
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Yang, Yunqiang; Fathy, Aly
- Source
- 2007 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Microwave Symposium, 2007. IEEE/MTT-S International. :1467-1470 Jun, 2007
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Real time systems
Radar imaging
Data acquisition
Ultra wideband antennas
Pulse amplifiers
Sampling methods
Ultra wideband radar
Space vector pulse width modulation
Pulse width modulation
Pulse generation
Ultra Wide Band
See Through Wall
Radar
Imaging
Data Acquisition
- Language
- ISSN
- 0149-645X
The technology of Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) spectrum is in a real expansion. One of the most promising applications is the See-Through-Wall (STW) imaging radar system for civilian and military use. The STW is based on the transmission and reception of UWB pulses in the time domain using synthetic aperture radar (SAR). A low-cost standalone real-time UWB STW radar system with customized and off-the-shelf components has been developed. The developed system is an affordable practical platform for, not only STW application, but also related UWB applications such as precise indoor localization. This paper is concerned with the implementation of this real-time STW system, and especially addresses the design of an efficient high-performance UWB data acquisition subsystem based on FPGSs.