Paper Info
Title
Collaborative mobile target imaging in UWB wireless radar sensor networks
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have thus far been used for detection and tracking of static and mobile targets for mission critical surveillance applications. However, detection and tracking do not suffice for a complete and accurate target classification. In fact, surveillance target imaging yields the most valuable information. Current techniques mainly aim to provide images of static environment in a sensor network. Nevertheless, imaging of mobile targets requires networked and collaborative detection, tracking and imaging capabilities. With this regard, ultra-wideband (UWB) radar technology stands as a promising approach for networked target imaging due to its unique features such as having no line-of-sight (LoS) requirement. However, UWB wireless radar sensor network (WRSN) is yet to be developed for imaging of mobile targets. In this paper, an architecture and a new collaborative mobile target imaging (CMTI) algorithm for WRSN are presented. The objective is to efficiently obtain an accurate image of mobile targets based on the collaborative effort of deployed radar sensor nodes. CMTI enables detection, tracking and imaging of mobile targets as a complete WRSN solution. Performance evaluations reveal that CMTI yields high quality radar image of mobile targets in WRSN with very low communication overhead regardless of the target shape and velocity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/JSAC.2010.100820
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile radio,object detection,radar detection,radar imaging,radar tracking,target tracking,ultra wideband radar,wireless sensor networks,UWB wireless radar sensor networks,WRSN,collaborative mobile target imaging,line-of-sight,radar imaging,surveillance target imaging,target classification,target detection,target tracking,Mission Critical Networks, Wireless Radar Sensor Networks, Mobile Target Imaging, CMTI, Radar Imaging
Radar engineering details,Radar,Object detection,Mobile radio,Radar imaging,Radar tracker,Computer science,Real-time computing,Wireless sensor network,Mobile telephony
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
6
0733-8716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
1.02
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muharrem Arik1211.02
Özgür B. Akan254045.91