Database Of Simulated Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Images For Short Range Automotive Radar

Inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images of dynamic targets have been used for automatic target recognition purposes. Limited experimental data of ISAR images of automotive targets are currently available to the radar community. In this paper, we propose an electromagnetic simulation model for generating ISAR images of dynamic automotive targets for a short-range automotive radar. Further, we provide an open-source database of approximately 750 ISAR images for each of five common automotive targets - two cars, truck, bicycle, and auto-rickshaw. Our results show that ISAR images provide useful insights regarding the dimensions of the vehicles, the number of wheels and the orientation of the vehicle along its trajectory with respect to the radar.

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