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Design and Fabrication of a W-band FMCW Radar for the Metal Target Detection Under the Ground Clutter Environment  

Park Jung-Dong (Agency for Defense Development)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology / v.7, no.3, 2004 , pp. 93-100 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we describe the design, fabrication, and test results of a W-band FMCW radar for the metal target detection under the ground clutter environment. In order to detect metal targets on the ground, we used a single cassegrain antenna with the beamwidth of $1.45^{\circ}$ which forms pencil-beam footprint on the ground. A log envelope detector was applied to improve radar performance in the severe ground clutter known as Weibull and log normal clutter. The designed FMCW radar can acquire altitude information from the ground clutter with $\sigma_0=-23dB$ at the height of 160m. The fabricated W-band FMCW radar transmits 11 dBm power and the dynamic range of the receiver is from -106dBm to -30dBm. The performances of the fabricated sensors were tested out in the fields and detected a car target of 200m apart on the grass.
Keywords
주파수변조연속파형;레이더;지면 클러터;
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