Photonics-Based High-Resolution 3D Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

Autor: Daiyin Zhu, Yue Yang, Shilong Pan, Xingwei Ye, Fangzheng Zhang
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 7, Pp 79503-79509 (2019)
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2921802
Popis: A photonics-based radar for high-resolution 3D microwave imaging is proposed and demonstrated, in which high range resolution is achieved by employing a wideband linearly frequency modulated signal, and high cross-range resolution in both azimuth and elevation is realized by rotating the target around two orthogonal axes to compose a 2D inverse synthetic aperture. The proposed radar performs photonics-based in-phase/quadrature up-conversion and de-chirp processing in the transmitter and receiver, respectively, which features a compact structure with low-sampling-rate electronics in the receiver. An experiment is carried out. The established radar works in the K-band, with bandwidth as large as 8 GHz. Captured echo signals at different rotation angles of the target are processed to a 3D image, in which the voxel values are scattering intensities at different spatial positions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE