A Target Shape Estimation Algorithm for Pulse Radar Systems Based on Boundary Scattering Transform

Takuya SAKAMOTO
Toru SATO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E87-B    No.5    pp.1357-1365
Publication Date: 2004/05/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Sensing
Keyword: 
pulse radar,  non-parametric estimation,  shape estimation,  ill-posed inverse problem,  boundary scattering transform,  

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Summary: 
Environment measurement is an important issue for various applications including household robots. Pulse radars are promising candidates in a near future. Estimating target shapes using waveform data, which we obtain by scanning an omni-directional antenna, is known as one of ill-posed inverse problems. Parametric methods such as Model-fitting method have problems concerning calculation time and stability. We propose a non-parametric algorithm for high-resolution estimation of target shapes in order to solve the problems of parametric algorithms.