Evaluation of Common Building Wall in See-Through-Wall Application of Ultra-wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper presents the reproduced images of various objects from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technique with ultrawideband (UWB) signals to evaluate the performance of common building walls in the see-through-wall capability regarding security applications, object along with human detection. The walls were designed from four materials, i.e., drywall, wood, insulation, and brick, which are used in real environments. The images of the objects behind the walls were performed using the commercial UWB radar with 2.2 GHz frequency bandwidth, 2 ns of pulse width, 10 MHz of internal repetition frequency, as well as an image reconstruction algorithm. From the measurement result, the insulated wall degraded the SAR image quality. Consequently, a material that enhance the UWB signal as Frequency Selective Surface should be considered to enable SAR for disaster applications.

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