Fundamentals of Tomography and Radar

The presentation will review the theory of tomographic imaging, then discuss a range of applications to the overall security problem, the relevant system configurations in each case, the achievable performance and critical factors, and identify promising areas for future research. 

Keywords radar radar imaging tomography high resolution synthetic aperture radar interferometry polarimetry Radon transform projection slice theorem backprojection. 

Advances in Sensing with Security Applications, 171-187. 2006 Springer. Printed in the Netherlands. 

In the notes that follow we consider the formation of high-quality radar imagery, and the means by which it is possible to extract useful target information from such imagery. 

Firstly we can establish some of the fundamental relations for the resolution of an imaging system. In the down-range dimension resolution Ar is related to the signal bandwidth B, thus 

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