The design of a K-band radial leaky-wave antenna is presented for polarization diversity applications. The antenna structure is constituted by an annular, radially periodic, and metallic strip grating printed on top of a single-layer grounded dielectric slab. The integrated feeding system is defined by a 2 × 2 array of planar slot sources for cylindrical surface-wave excitation.
A two-dimensional leaky-wave antenna fed by an array of fully integrated sources and able to provide fixed-frequency continuous beam steering through broadside is presented in this contribution. The structure is constituted by a 'bull-eye' leaky-wave antenna fed by a proper arrangement of four surface-wave launchers, whose excitation coefficients are selected to control the beam pointing angle around broadside.
We present an enhanced imaging procedure for suppression of the rough surface clutter arising in forward-looking ground-penetrating radar (FL-GPR) applications. The procedure is based on a matched filtering formulation of microwave tomographic imaging, and employs coherence factor (CF) for clutter suppression. After tomographic reconstruction, the CF is first applied to generate a "coherence map" of the region in front of the FL-GPR system illuminated by the transmitting antennas.
Nowadays, many technologies and algorithms are available for the DOA estimation, aimed at satisfying the both the accuracy requirements and the antenna installation constraints. The authors propose here a comparative study on different choices of antenna systems designed for the DOA estimation, performed with a compressive sensing approach. This work is organized as follows. After a brief introduction on the DOA estimation systems and compressive sensing algorithms, we apply a compressive sensing algorithm to both vector and standard antenna array systems.
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