Real beam, volumetric radar imaging at 340 GHz for security applications

Conference Paper (2019)
Author(s)

Duncan A. Robertson (University of St Andrews)

David G. Macfarlane (University of St Andrews)

Robert I. Hunter (University of St Andrews)

Erio Gandini (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Nuria Llombart (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Research Group
Tera-Hertz Sensing
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2018.8608931 Final published version
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
Research Group
Tera-Hertz Sensing
Article number
8608931
Pages (from-to)
615-616
ISBN (electronic)
978-1-5386-7102-3
Event
2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, APSURSI 2018 (2018-07-08 - 2018-07-13), Boston, United States
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Abstract


In this work we present a 340 GHz volumetric radar imager with 1 cm
3
voxel resolution and multi-hertz frame rate. The radar uses a sparse focal plane array of 16 transceivers and mechanical scanning to achieve real beam imaging of people for future aviation security applications.