Fusion of Data from Multiple Automotive Radars for High-Resolution DoA Estimation

High angular resolution is in high demand in automotive radar. To achieve a high azimuth resolution a large aperture antenna array is required. Although MIMO technique can be used to form larger virtual apertures, a large number of transmitter-receiver channels are needed, which is still technologically challenging and costly. To circumvent this...

Forward-Looking GPR Imaging with Near-Optimal 3-D Synthetic Array

In this paper, we propose an Elevation-Radial scanned Synthetic Aperture Radar (E-RadSAR) for forward-looking ground penetrating radar (GPR) imaging. The E-RadSAR exploits the advantages of both RadSAR and Elevation-Circular SAR (E-CSAR) by utilizing the SAR technique in the cross- and down-range directions for signal acquisition. It could be...

NUFFT-Based Range Migration for 3-D Imaging with Irregular Planar Array

In this paper, a Nonuniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT)-based range migration algorithm (RMA) is proposed for three-dimensional (3-D) imaging with irregular planar arrays. The proposed imaging algorithm takes advantage of NUFFT to reconstruct the signal spectra in the wavenumber domain, which overcomes the constraint of irregular spatial...

Super resolution DOA for FMCW automotive radar imaging

Radar imaging using ultra-wideband (UWB) automotive radar is investigated. To overcome poor cross-range resolution of traditional beamforming (BF) algorithms, super resolution technique is applied for the Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation. Both super-resolution algorithm and conventional BF method are used to process experimental data...

Improved Microwave Imaging by Wavenumber Domain Multiband Data Fusion

A matrix-pencil based wavenumber-domain multiband fusion approach is proposed for improved microwave imaging. The suggested fusion approach is based on the fact from the Born approximation that the wavenumber-domain signal in a given scattering direction can be represented as a sum of the same number of contributions over the whole bandwidth....