Improvement of Continuous Wave Radar Measurements in aPartially Controlled Environment
Institution: | Wright State University |
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Year: | 2017 |
Keywords: | Electrical Engineering; electrical engineering |
Posted: | 02/01/2018 |
Record ID: | 2218506 |
Full text PDF: | http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1496094047730053 |
A continuous wave (CW) radar system within a partiallycontrolled environment measures scale model aircraft formono-static and fully polarimetric radar imaging. Due to apseudo-far-field setup, wavefront curvature manifests primarily asgeometric distortion. Recently proposed phase error models showinduced geometric distortion to be independent of aperture sizewhich are verified via measurement for Sensors and SignalsExploitation Laboratory (SSEL) collections. The partiallycontrolled nature of the SSEL introduces stray infrastructuralreflections into the measured data. Three methods to reduce straysignals are explored namely: true background subtraction (TBS),running average (RA), and spatial filtering (SF). Of the threemethods, SF provides 15 dB improvement in dynamic range revealingunderlying SSEL structure. Defocus due to quadratic phase error(QPE) is considered, but shown to be negligible for typicalaperture sizes of 20 degrees.Advisors/Committee Members: Saville, Michael (Advisor).