Ground-Based MIMO Microwave Cameras: Resolution and Stationary Object Imaging
| Authors: Chapurskii V.V., Slukin G.P., Noniashvili M.I., Lesnikov G.A. | Published: 06.07.2019 |
| Published in issue: #3(126)/2019 | |
| DOI: 10.18698/0236-3933-2019-3-77-94 | |
| Category: Informatics, Computer Engineering and Control | Chapter: System Analysis, Control, and Information Processing | |
| Keywords: multistatic microwave holography, MIMO microwave camera, microwave image, radar cross-section, stepped frequency modulation, generalized correlation integral in correlation processing, space-time processing | |
The study analysed possible resolution of two ground-based MIMO microwave camera designs by means of two-dimensional spatial cross-sections of a generalized ambiguity function. We used stepped-frequency modulated broadband signals as time-orthogonal probing signals for the microwave camera transmitters. We employed a mathematical simulation of the space-time signal processing system pertaining to MIMO microwave camera receivers to illustrate 2D and 3D microwave imaging of stationary extended multipoint objects situated at various altitudes above the earth surface
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