Towards Three-dimensional Millimeter-Wave Radar Imaging of On-the-move Targets

Author(s):  
Luis E. Tirado ◽  
Weite Zhang ◽  
Anthony Bisulco ◽  
Hipolito Gomez-Sousa ◽  
Jose A. Martinez-Lorenzo
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 8926
Author(s):  
Jie Liu ◽  
Kai Zhang ◽  
Zhenlin Sun ◽  
Qiang Wu ◽  
Wei He ◽  
...  

At present, millimeter wave radar imaging technology has become a recognized human security solution in the field. The millimeter wave radar imaging system can be used to detect a concealed object; multiple-input multiple-output radar antennas and synthetic aperture radar techniques are used to obtain the raw data. The analytical Fourier transform algorithm is used for image reconstruction. When imaging a target at 90 mm from radar, which belongs to the near field imaging scene, the image resolution can reach 1.90 mm in X-direction and 1.73 mm in Y-direction. Since the error caused by the distance between radar and target will lead to noise, the original reconstruction image is processed by gamma transform, which eliminates image noise, then the image is enhanced by linearly stretched transform to improve visual recognition, which lays a good foundation for supervised learning. In order to flexibly deploy the machine learning algorithm in various application scenarios, ShuffleNetV2, MobileNetV3 and GhostNet representative of lightweight convolutional neural networks with redefined convolution, branch structure and optimized network layer structure are used to distinguish multi-category SAR images. Through the fusion of squeeze-and-excitation and the selective kernel attention mechanism, more precise features are extracted for classification, the proposed GhostNet_SEResNet56 can realize the best classification accuracy of SAR images within limited resources, which prediction accuracy is 98.18% and the number of parameters is 0.45 M.


2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiko Wada ◽  
Hiroyuki Hashiguchi ◽  
Masayuki K. Yamamoto ◽  
Michihiro Teshiba ◽  
Shoichiro Fukao

Abstract Observations of frontal cirrus clouds were conducted with the scanning millimeter-wave radar at the Shigaraki Middle and Upper Atmosphere (MU) Radar Observatory in Shiga, Japan, during 30 September–13 October 2000. The three-dimensional background winds were also observed with the very high frequency (VHF) band MU radar. Comparing the observational results of the two radars, it was found that the cirrus clouds appeared coincident with the layers of the strong vertical shear of the horizontal winds, and they developed and became thicker under the condition of the strong vertical shear of the horizontal wind and updraft. The result of the radiosonde observation indicated that Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (KHI) occurred at 8–9-km altitudes because of the strong vertical shear of the horizontal wind. The warm and moist air existed above the 8.5-km altitude, and the cold and dry air existed below the 8.5-km altitude. As a result of the airmass mixing of air above and below the 8.5-km altitudes, the cirrus clouds were formed. The updraft, which existed at 8.5–12-km altitude, caused the development of the cirrus clouds with the thickness of >2 km. By using the scanning millimeter-wave radar, the three-dimensional structure of cell echoes formed by KHI for the first time were successfully observed.


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