Doppler velocity measurements from airborne meteorological Doppler radars require removal of the aircraft motion contribution in order to provide radial velocity of hydrometeor targets. This is a critical step for hydrometeor motion and wind retrievals. The aircraft motion contribution is defined as the scalar product between the radar antenna beam-pointing vector and the aircraft velocity vect...

Recently, millimeter wave applications are rapidly growing in modern high-speed and broadband wireless systems such as uncompressed HD-TV transmission, home link and radar for the collision prevention. In this paper, a NRD guide [1] fed dielectric lens antenna with high gain and low sidelobe characteristics is proposed for millimeter wave applications. The proposed antenna is designed on the ba...

Automotive sensors for the detection and discrimination of other vehicles on the road, obstacles, and boundaries use miniature radar systems and are heavily dependent in their performance on the antenna system. In this contribution, the requirements for such antenna systems are reviewed and the various options of antenna technology are discussed. In particular, prominent and presently employed,...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) with a suspended 1 GHz horn antenna was deployed for measurement of soil water contents and dwatj wheat canopy reflections over bare and electrically terminating sutjaces. Sutjace reflection (SR) magnitudes and propagation times (PI) were used to independently calculate bulk soil dielectric constant and soil water contents. Measurements over wheat canopy shows tha...

This paper proposes a three-dimensional inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging method for high-speed targets in short-range using an impulse radar. According to the requirements for high-speed target measurement in short-range, this paper establishes the single-input multiple-output (SIMO) antenna array, and further proposes a missile motion parameter estimation method based on impulse...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a general method for generating high-resolution radar maps from low-resolution aperture data which is based on using the relative motion between the radar antenna and the imaged scene. Originally conceived in the early 1950s [1], it is extensively used to image objects on the surface of the Earth and the planets [2]. A synthetic aperture is formed using electro...

This paper presents the design and optimization of patch-like antennas for Through-The-Wall Imaging (TTWI) radar applications in the frequency range 0.5-2 GHz. A basic antenna configuration is analyzed and modified through an optimization aiming at reducing the size of the antenna and at focusing the radiated power in a single lobe to be directed towards the wall and the targets to be detected....

This paper describes the design and simulation of a mobile robot for missions in polar regions. The robot was designed to provide mobility, power, precise positioning and environmental protection for a bistatic synthetic aperture radar for polar regions to measure ice thickness and other ice sheet characteristics. The robot is required to carry and protect the radar system and to tow a large an...

We develop a theory for waveform-diverse moving-target synthetic-aperture radar in the case in which a single moving antenna is used both on transmission and on reception. We assume that the targets (scattering objects) are moving linearly, but we allow an arbitrary, known flight path for the antenna and allow it to transmit a sequence of arbitrary, known waveforms. A formula for phasespace (po...