Trading beams for bandwidth: imaging with randomized beamforming

DOI10.1137/19M1242045MaRDI QIDQ5108477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa, Mark A. Davenport, Justin Romberg

Publication date 4 May 2020

Published in SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00075

zbMATH Keywords

array imagingbroadband imagingrandomized linear algebrasubspace model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion (65F05) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

Abstract: We study the problem of actively imaging a range-limited far-field scene using an antenna array. We describe how the range limit imposes structure in the measurements across multiple wavelengths. This structure allows us to introduce a novel trade-off: the number of spatial array measurements (i.e., beams that have to be formed) can be reduced significantly lower than the number array elements if the scene is illuminated with a broadband source. To take advantage of this trade-off, we use a small number of "generic" linear combinations of the array outputs, instead of the phase offsets used in conventional beamforming. We provide theoretical justification for the proposed trade-off without making any strong structural assumptions on the target scene (such as sparsity) except that it is range limited. In proving our theoretical results, we take inspiration from the sketching literature. We also provide simulation results to establish the merit of the proposed signal acquisition strategy. Our proposed method results in a reduction in the number of required spatial measurements in an array imaging system and hence can directly impact their speed and cost of operation.

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• Coarray analysis of the wide-band point spread function for active array imaging.

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