Scattering Center Identification of Simple Targets

Student: Chee-Gee Oh

Supervisor: Nick Shuley

Category: Engineering Thesis Project - Signal Processing

The ability to identify targets plays a major rule in the modern world, especially in the military organization and space exploration. It allows decision to be made, to utilize the amount of resources available. This was amplified in the military operation, where basing on the target characteristics, the commander can made the appropriate combat maneuvers to counter and remove any potential threat scenarios. It also brings about an overall increase in the crews awareness of the surrounding.

In the recent decade, the physics and microwave engineers had worked out tremendous methods and models to develop an ideal target identification technique. Extensive research has concentrated on the late time portion of the backscattered field response, where the natural resonances of the object exist and are characteristic of its geometry. However, this technique is bounded by the low value in magnitude, as compare to those of the early-time portion.

This report will be focusing on the early-time extraction process, through the use of existing methods and models to identify simple targets. The main focus will be to develop a set of program, which will determine the scattering centers that exist within a synthetic target signature and apply these techniques to reconstruct the target signature, using the scattering center information

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