MIMO-SAR imaging system on board a UAV

Maria Garcia-Fernandez; Guillermo Alvarez-Narciandi; Fernando Las Heras; Yuri Alvarez-Lopez

doi:10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133338

MIMO-SAR imaging system on board a UAV

Maria Garcia-Fernandez^*, Guillermo Alvarez-Narciandi, Fernando Las Heras, Yuri Alvarez-Lopez

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Abstract

In the last few years, radar systems on board Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have experienced a significant development. This research effort, driven by the multiple applications of these systems, has mainly focused on improving their detection capabilities. However, there are several other aspects of these systems that remain a challenge. This contribution presents a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output Synthetic Aperture Radar (MIMO-SAR) imaging system on board a UAV, which allows to significantly increase the information gathered per unit of time. In particular, an array of 3 transmitters and 4 receivers was integrated into a UAV platform, and several test measurements were performed. Results show that this configuration enables to retrieve high quality radar images, while reducing the required flight time to scan a given area.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP): proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9788831299077
ISBN (Print)	97816654754-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133338
Publication status	Published - 31 May 2023
Event	17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2023 - Florence, Italy Duration: 26 Mar 2023 → 31 Mar 2023 https://www.eucap2023.org/

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Name	European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP: proceedings

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Conference	17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2023
Abbreviated title	EuCAP 2023
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	26/03/2023 → 31/03/2023
Internet address	https://www.eucap2023.org/

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Funding Information:
This work has been funded by the Ministry of Defense of Spain and by the University of Oviedo (Contract 2019/SP03390102/00000204, “SAFEDRONE”); by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain / ERDF (project PID2021-122697OB-I00, “META-IMAGER”); by the Spanish Ministry of Universities and European Union (NextGenera-tionEU Fund) under projects MU-21-UP2021-030-53519863 and MU-21-UP2021-030-71667225; by the UKRI Postdoctoral Fellowship Guarantee for MSCA PF under projects EP/X022951/1 and EP/X022943/1; and by Government of Asturias/ERDF under grant AYUD/2021/51706. The design and initial assembly of the antenna array, conducted by the research group Teoría do Sinal e Comunicacions, Universidade de Vigo, has been funded by the University of Oviedo under contract no. PN-S 2020/49.

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© 2023 European Association for Antennas and Propagation.

Keywords

Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO)
radar imaging
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Instrumentation

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Garcia-Fernandez, M., Alvarez-Narciandi, G., Heras, F. L., & Alvarez-Lopez, Y. (2023). MIMO-SAR imaging system on board a UAV. In 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP): proceedings (European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP: proceedings). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133338

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Garcia-Fernandez, M , Alvarez-Narciandi, G, Heras, FL & Alvarez-Lopez, Y 2023, MIMO-SAR imaging system on board a UAV. in 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP): proceedings. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP: proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2023, Florence, Italy, 26/03/2023. https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133338

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2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP): proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. (European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP: proceedings).

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