An interferometric radar comprising an arm (2), which rotates with respect to an axis (z) of a plane (zx) orthogonal to an axis of rotation (y), a system of antennas (1), which are fixed to said arm (2), are able both to move along the arm and to describe complete revolutions along a circular path about said axis (y), and are oriented in a direction of sight (a) parallel to the axis (y), motor-drive means (3) for driving the arm (2) and the system of antennas along the arm, a data-acquisition and processing unit (10) operatively connected to said antenna (1) for acquiring a succession of images detected by the antenna during its revolution about the axis (y) and making differential interferometric calculations for measuring at least one component of the displacement of one or more targets in the field of view.

The present disclosure relates to a security inspection system and method using the three-dimensional holographic imaging technology. The system comprises: a body frame; a millimeter-wave transceiving module, disposed on the body frame; and at least two millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays, connected with the millimeter-wave transceiving module; the number of the millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays being the same as that of the scan areas; a scan driving device, configured to drive the at least two millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays to rotate along the same direction; a control device, configured to control the scan driving device to generate a rotation angle signal; and a parallel-image processing module, configured to synthesize a three-dimensional holographic image of an under-test object according to echo signals collected by the millimeter-wave transceiving module and spatial position information of the echo signals. The present disclosure simplifies the system structure and improves the imaging resolution.

A human body security check system based on millimeter wave holographic three-dimensional imaging, comprising a mechanical scanning mechanism, millimeter wave signal transceiver units, an image processing unit (7), and an alarm unit (9). The mechanical scanning mechanism is used for driving the millimeter wave signal transceiver units to simultaneously move horizontally and vertically relative to an individual to be checked (10); the millimeter wave signal transceiver units are used for transmitting millimeter wave signals to the individual to be checked (10) and receiving millimeter wave signals reflected by the individual to be checked (10); the image processing unit (7) is used for performing holographic three-dimensional imaging on the body of the individual to be checked (10) according to the reflected millimeter wave signals so as to obtain a three-dimensional image of the body; the alarm unit (9) is used for comparing the three-dimensional image of the body with a three-dimensional image of a secure body pre-stored in the alarm unit (9), and giving an alarm if the three-dimensional image of the body does not match the three-dimensional image of the secure body pre-stored in the alarm unit. The human body security check system is low in costs because electrical scanning is replaced with mechanical scanning, and features a simple structure, a short production period, high resolution, a short imaging time, and wide application. Also provided is a human body security check method based on millimeter wave holographic three-dimensional imaging.

Imaging systems and associated methods are described. According to one aspect, an imaging system includes an antenna array having transmit and receive antennas, the transmit antennas emit electromagnetic energy from a plurality of different positions about a target imaging volume and the receive antennas receive reflections of the electromagnetic energy at the different positions, a transceiver configured to control the emission of the electromagnetic energy and to generate radar data that is indicative of the reflections of the electromagnetic energy received via the receive antennas; and processing circuitry configured to focus the radar data to provide first focused data in a first dimension, to focus the radar data in a second dimension to provide second focused data, and use the second focused data to focus the radar data in a third dimension to provide third focused data comprising an image of the target imaging volume.

A millimeter-wave three-dimensional holographic imaging method and system. The method comprises: transmitting a continuous frequency wave to a measured human body, and receiving an echo signal reflected back; performing Fourier transform, phase compensation, inverse Fourier transform, and non-uniform sampling to uniform sampling interpolation; and projecting three-dimensional echo data to obtain two-dimensional reconstruction data, and generating a two-dimensional reconstructed image.

The present disclosure relates to a security inspection system and method using the three-dimensional holographic imaging technology. The system comprises: a body frame; a millimeter-wave transceiving module, disposed on the body frame; and at least two millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays, connected with the millimeter-wave transceiving module; the number of the millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays being the same as that of the scan areas; a scan driving device, configured to drive the at least two millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays to rotate along the same direction; a control device, configured to control the scan driving device to generate a rotation angle signal; and a parallel-image processing module, configured to synthesize a three-dimensional holographic image of an under-test object according to echo signals collected by the millimeter-wave transceiving module and spatial position information of the echo signals. The present disclosure simplifies the system structure and improves the imaging resolution.

An interferometric radar comprising an arm (2), which rotates with respect to an axis (z) of a plane (zx) orthogonal to an axis of rotation (y), a system of antennas (1), which are fixed to said arm (2), are able both to move along the arm and to describe complete revolutions along a circular path about said axis (y), and are oriented in a direction of sight (a) parallel to the axis (y), motor-drive means (3) for driving the arm (2) and the system of antennas along the arm, a data-acquisition and processing unit (10) operatively connected to said antenna (1) for acquiring a succession of images detected by the antenna during its revolution about the axis (y) and making differential interferometric calculations for measuring at least one component of the displacement of one or more targets in the field of view.

An interferometric radar comprising an arm (2), which rotates with respect to an axis (z) of a plane (zx) orthogonal to an axis of rotation (y), a system of linear-polarization antennas (1), which is fixed to said arm (2) for describing complete revolutions along a circular path (c) about said axis (y) and is oriented in a direction of sight (a) parallel to the axis (y), motor-drive means (3) for driving the arm (2), a data-acquisition and processing unit (10) operatively connected to said antenna (1) for acquiring a succession of images detected by the antenna during its revolution about the axis (y) and making differential interferometric calculations for measuring at least one component of the displacement of one or more targets in the field of view, or else for measuring the digital elevation map (DEM) of the scenario in the field of view.

A new measurement approach is disclosed that facilitates significantly smaller size, weight, and power (SWaP) spaceborne radar systems that can provide wide swath, high resolution observations. Multiple beams employed in the scan and the complex volume and/or surface backscatter signals of each beam is recorded. Each beam is electronically swept in azimuth where each beam is held at a constant incidence angle over the azimuth sector that covers the swath. Once the sweep is complete, the platform moves forward, by one along track pixel, and the sweep is repeated in order to provide continuous mapping of the volume and surface covered by the swath. Complex volume backscatter is recorded and mapped to each altitude layer to provide full mapping of the atmosphere.

Disclosed is a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system for target recognition with complex range profile. The SAR system comprising a memory, a recurrent neural network (RNN), a multi-layer linear network in signal communication the RNN, and a machine-readable medium on the memory. The machine-readable medium is configured to store instructions that, when executed by the RNN, cause the SAR system to perform various operations. The various operation comprise: receiving raw SAR data associated with observed views of a scene, wherein the raw SAR data comprises information captured via the SAR system; radio frequency (RF) preprocessing the received raw SAR data to produce a processed raw SAR data; converting the processed raw SAR data to a complex SAR range profile data; processing the complex SAR range profile data with the RNN having RNN states; and mapping the RNN states to a target class with the multi-layer linear network.