Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
Volume 69, Issue 8, Pages 5843-5852Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2020.2966312
Keywords
Frequency measurement; Radar imaging; Ceramics; Tomography; Building materials; Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) chirp radar; millimeter wave; imaging radar imaging
Funding
- Region Occitanie/Pyrenees-Mediterranee (HERMES platform)
- European Regional Development Fund (FEDER)
- ANR SPATIOTERA program [ANR-19-CE24]
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This article reports a novel 3-D imaging approach for remote, nondestructive material inspection at depth. The approach is based on a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar system operating in the 75-110-GHz frequency band. Time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) measurements demonstrate that such a frequency band has manage-able attenuation levels in centimeter-long materials, thereby offering an advantageous resolution-versus-measurement-depth tradeoff compared with higher frequencies. The proposed setup includes a long delay on the reference signal in order to cancel redundant signals that would otherwise degrade the measurement. Furthermore, specific signal-processing techniques used to improve the performance of the system, which requires stringent component performances in terms of radio-frequency nonlinearity and return loss, are presented. Radio-frequency nonlinearity correction is based on a reference measurement, and the impact of deleterious reflections is reduced by averaging measurements conducted on a target at different longitudinal positions. As a result, an improvement of the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio up to 20 dB is demonstrated. Tomography experiments were conducted on building materials showing 3-D imaging with theoretically limited longitudinal and transverse resolutions of 5 and 20 mm, respectively, thus opening the door to civil infrastructure monitoring applications.
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