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Example 2 - SAR imaging:
Undergraduates at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) used
the radar and a stepper motor to create a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image of a collection of
aluminum soda cans arranged to form the initials of the university. The results are shown in
Figure
8
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Fig. 8: SAR image of soda cans arranged to form the letters UAH
A copy of their project can be found on the Time Domain website at the following link:
http://www.timedomain.com/UAH%20Senior%20Project%20-%20Final%20Presentation%20V4.pdf
Example 3 – ISAR imaging:
a team at the University of Texas (Austin) used the radar to build an
inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) image of windmill blades. These results are shown in
Figure
9
:
Fig. 9: ISAR image of rotating windmill blades
– (a) test setup (b) windmill blades (c)
blades as modelled (d) blades as imaged by the ISAR
a)
b)
c)
d)
