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Through-Wall Imaging With UWB Radar System - KEMT FEI TUKE

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2.5 <strong>Radar</strong> <strong>Imaging</strong> Methods Overview 19<br />

2.5.4 Differential SAR<br />

The wall is mostly represented in a long area of the migrated image. Sometimes<br />

the objects behind the wall are overlapped by the wall reflection. Differential SAR<br />

(DSAR) is a method for elimination of direct reflection from the walls proposed<br />

by Mojtaba Dehmollaian et al. [45] in 2009. The idea is similar to applying background<br />

subtraction for detection of moving objects behind the wall. Although<br />

during SAR scanning all the scanned objects seems to move, the reflection from<br />

the first wall is almost the same for two successive antenna positions. However,<br />

the reflection from the object behind the wall is not the same, as it can be seen in<br />

Fig. 2.5.2. Before the SAR imaging is applied, the matrix of difference signal is<br />

Z<br />

Antenna at two<br />

successive positions<br />

<strong>Wall</strong><br />

reflections<br />

TOA W<br />

TOA W<br />

TOA T<br />

Target<br />

reflections<br />

TOA T+�<br />

Target<br />

<strong>Wall</strong><br />

Fig. 2.5.2: Differential SAR model for monostatic approach.<br />

obtained by substracting two successive impulse responses:<br />

B∆ = VR(n + 1) − VR(n). (2.5.10)<br />

Computing the SAR image with B∆ leads to elimination of direct reflection from<br />

the first wall. This can increase a signal-to-clutter ratio of small objects behind<br />

the wall. The wall has to be homogenous and scan has to be performed in parallel<br />

to the wall in order to obtain the same wall reflection in two successive antenna<br />

positions.<br />

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