This paper proposes two studies on a Shark antenna array, working in the frequency band [800MHz - 8GHz],
in a configuration including N generators and N antennas. The first study deals with the evaluation of the
performances of the array from the analyze of the transient performances of the elementary system "generator +
antenna". The second study concerns the comparison of two arrays having the same surface area, but a different
number of antennas thanks to a scaling method on the dimensions of the elementary antenna.
Philippe Delmonte, Cyril Dubois, Joël Andrieu, Bruno Beillard, Michèle Lalande, Valérie Bertrand, Bernard Jecko, Laurent Pecastaing, Alain Gibert, Jean Paillol, Pierre Domens, Régis Guillerey, Francis Monnier, Marc Legoff
PULSAR is an Ultra Wide-Band short pulse Radar developed by the CELAR (French Technical Centre for Armament Electronics) and the IRCOM (Research Institute of Microwave and Optical Communications) in order to detect foliage and ground concealed targets. One of the most promising mission of such potential radar is the detection of buried and surface land mine fields. An instrumentation measurement system has been designed and implemented. This paper deals with the recent development efforts on this system, specially on a new pulse generator and a new UWB antenna. Recently, the LGE (Laboratoire de Génie Electrique) has developed a high voltage pulse coaxial generator. These recent developments allowed to increase the pulse output voltage and the pulse rise time. The new UWB antenna is
able to support a very high voltage; the bandwidth and the gain are greater than the ones of the previous antenna.
PULSAR is an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) short pulse Radar developed by the CELAR (French Technical Center for Armament Electronics) and the IRCOM (Research Institute of Microwave and Optical Communications) in order to detect foliage and ground concealed mines. An instrumentation measurement system has been designed and implemented, in particular new 2D broad band antennas with a very low pulse distortion. The clutter suppression is based on background subtraction and wavelet transforms. These data are used to obtain SAR ultra wide band images by transient methods. The following discussion describes the device, the experimental results and the signal processing currently utilized. Future development efforts on this system (generator, acquisition means .) are detailed. At the same time a theoretical study is made to estimate target transient responses captured by the system. So a FDTD code is modified to simulate buried objects detection by the radar.
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