A microwave and millimeter wave imaging system. In either a far-field or a near-field detection mode, a radially-polarized probe transmits an imaging signal along a predetermined scan path to detect a target in a sample. The imaging signal's orientation is independent of the target's orientation and changes at each target as the probe transmits the signal during scanning. A measurement system receives scattered waves reflected from the sample via a single channel and images the sample and the target based on the reflected waves independent of the orientation of the target.

A method for detecting a horizontally buried linear object is provided, the horizontally buried linear object having a longitudinal extension. The method comprises moving, with a flying platform comprising a radar for synthetic aperture radar, SAR, vertical imaging, along a trajectory corresponding to a synthetic aperture. The method further comprises transmitting and receiving radar signals while moving along the trajectory corresponding to the synthetic aperture. The method also comprises forming a SAR image based on collected data representing radar signal reflections received from the ground. The method additionally comprises detecting one or more features in the formed SAR image relating to the horizontally buried linear object. Said trajectory is oriented in a direction substantially perpendicular to an expected orientation of the longitudinal extension of the horizontally buried object and traversing the horizontally buried object.

A millimeter wavelength charting synthetic aperture radar having small dimensions and light weight, carried by an UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), also referred to as a drone.

A method includes transmitting, by a radiofrequency identification (RFID) reader device, a first electromagnetic radiation at a first polarization to a scan area and second electromagnetic radiation at a second polarization to the scan area. Re-radiated first electromagnetic radiation is received from an RFID tag located in the scan area at the first polarization. Re-radiated second electromagnetic radiation is received from the RFID tag at the second polarization. A radar image is generated based on the first and second re-radiated electromagnetic radiation. One or more items of information encoded in one or more microstructure elements located on the RFID tag are decoded based on the generated radar image. An RFID reader device and an RFID system are also disclosed.

In an approach to improve detecting and identifying objects through orbital synthetic aperture radar satellites, embodiments arrange an array of elements in a predetermined configuration, and process, by a threshold and signature analysis, detected peaks in processed image data. Further, embodiments generate a list of objects detections based on the processed peaks, and identify an object based on amplitude, polarization ration, and polarization phase difference. Additionally, embodiments, classify the identified object based on the generated list of objects, and output, by a user interface, a list of probable object detections with position coordinates and identifications based on the classified identified objects, wherein the list of probable objects are above or within a predetermine threshold of confidence.

A method, a system, a device and a medium for landslide identification based on full Polarimetry Synthetic Aperture Radar (full PoISAR) are provided. The method mainly includes: registering target full PoISAR data with target optical remote sensing data and target digital elevation model data to obtain a first registration result and a second registration result; determining a polarization feature, a decomposition feature, and a terrain feature of a target area according to registration results; determining a texture feature and a hue feature of the target area according to the target full PoISAR data; determining a spectrum feature of the target area according to the target optical remote sensing data; fusing abovementioned multi-dimensional features to obtain a target fusion feature; and inputting the target fusion feature into a landslide mass identification model for identifying a landslide mass, so as to determine a landslide area in the target area.

The invention concerns processing which implements the following steps to estimate polarimetric parameters: In the cross power spectrum, identifying signal-containing lines and lines only containing noise; From the power spectra of each channel and from the cross power spectrum, deleting lines at the frequencies identified as only containing noise in the cross power spectrum; Calculating polarimetric parameters as a function of the power spectra thus corrected. Application to weather radars and other types of bipolar radars having coherent reception.

A method for operating a synthetic aperture radar, SAR, mode, in an SAR instrument, wherein the method comprises the steps of: acquiring at least one subswath positioned in an across track direction of a movement of the SAR instrument, wherein the at least one subswath is acquired during at least one acquisition burst duration and/or at a predetermined radio frequency bandwidth; adjusting the at least one acquisition burst duration and/or the predetermined radio frequency bandwidth and/or a number of parallel simultaneous subswaths and/or an inserted burst duration for a further subswath based upon a predetermined parameter; constructing an SAR image based on the acquired at least one subswath.

A high-resolution fully polarimetric frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) image radar system using an RF switch and an image processing method are provided. The image radar system includes a signal generator that generates a frequency modulation signal, a transmitter that radiates the frequency modulation signal as vertical polarization and horizontal polarization using a vertically polarized transmit antenna and a horizontally polarized transmit antenna, a receiver that receives a signal in which a vertically polarized signal and a horizontally polarized signal are reflected from an object, using a vertically polarized receive antenna and a horizontally polarized receive antenna, and generates a VV/HV polarization data set and a VH/HH polarization data set based on the signal received via the vertically polarized receive antenna and the horizontally polarized receive antenna, and a signal processor that obtains a fully polarimetric radar image based on bilateral symmetry correction and azimuth compression.

Disclosed is a method for processing a radar image performed by a computing device including at least one processor. The method may include: creating a first polarization image by performing a first decomposition operation with respect to an input radar image; creating a synthetic image through an image creation model based on the input radar image; and creating result information through an image processing model based on the first polarization image and the synthetic image.