Study and Design of a See Through Wall
Imaging Radar System
M. Abdellaoui, M. Fattah, S. Mazer, M. El bekkali, M. El ghazi, Y. Balboul
and M. Mehdi
Abstract Ultra-wideband (UWB) radars are used for several applications such as
locating, detecting and preventing collisions. The detection of humans hidden by
walls or trapped in burning buildings or avalanche victims is so important. In our
research, we aim to design UWB radar to meet those needs. In this paper, we study
monostatic and bistatic radars in order to form a general idea about the process of
implementation of a radar information processing chain, before adapting it to the
UWB technology that will be used in our application later on. The application which
consists in detecting and locating targets through walls.
Keywords Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology · Monostatic radar · Bistatic
radar · Detection · Localization
1 Introduction
The use of ultra-wideband wireless communications is growing rapidly due to the
need to support multiple users and provide more information with higher data rates.
Ultra-wideband technology uses very short nanosecond pulses, covering a very large
bandwidth in the frequency domain. The big advantages of UWB short pulses are
immunity to passive interference (rain, fog, clutter, aerosols, etc.) and the ability
to penetrate most building materials such as bricks, wood, drywall and reinforced
concrete. The very large bandwidth translates into good radar resolution, which has
the ability to differentiate between closely spaced targets [1, 2].
M. Abdellaoui (B ) · S. Mazer · M. El bekkali · M. El ghazi · Y. Balboul
Transmission and Information Processing Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University,
Fez, Morocco
e-mail: Abdellaoui.marwa@gmail.com
M. Fattah
ETTI, FPE, My Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco
M. Mehdi
Microwaves Laboratory, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
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