Compressive noise radar for urban sensing

Abstract

Ultra-wideband (UWB) noise-like transmit waveforms are ideally suited for implementing compressive radar range-profile imaging systems. Due to useful properties such as robustness to interference, simplicity of hardware design, and high range resolution, UWB noise radar has been successfully applied to urban-sensing scenarios. Compressive noise radar systems can achieve resolutions comparable to conventional systems at lower sampling rates, thus enabling super-resolution in radar imaging. In this paper, compressive noise radar imaging is experimentally shown to be feasible for urban sensing applications. S-band through-the-wall imaging results demonstrate the feasibility of using compressive noise radar for sensing obscured targets of interest in urban scenarios.