Through-the-wall polarimetric imaging

Fauzia Ahmad; Moeness G Amin

doi:10.1117/12.777889

15 April 2008 Through-the-wall polarimetric imaging

Fauzia Ahmad, Moeness G Amin

Proceedings Volume 6970, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XV; 69700N (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.777889
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Through-the-Wall Imaging is emerging as an affordable sensor technology supporting a variety of applications, such as surveillance and reconnaissance, emergency rescue, and firefighting. Motivated by the desire to understand the underlying phenomenology and performance bounds associated with imaging targets behind walls, several through-the-wall imaging experiments were conducted at the Center for Advanced Communications (CAC), Villanova University. These experiments aimed at supporting resolution, polarization, and localization of indoor targets and objects behind walls, and provided valuable dual-polarized synthetic aperture data measurements of indoor scenes of different complexity and population. In this paper, we present full-polarization imaging results, for a setting of calibrated reflectors behind a typical exterior grade wall. These imaging results provide polarimetric scene characterization and are shown to be in good agreement with the ground truth.

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Fauzia Ahmad and Moeness G Amin "Through-the-wall polarimetric imaging", Proc. SPIE 6970, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XV, 69700N (15 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.777889

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