Single-transceiver compressive antenna for high-capacity sensing and imaging applications

Abstract

This paper presents a novel single-transceiver compressive reflector antenna for high-capacity sensing and imaging applications. The compressive antenna generates a spatial code in the imaging region, which is dynamically changed by using a mechanical rotation of the reflector. The scattered data measured by the single transceiver is processed using Compressive Sensing techniques in order to perform a 3D reconstruction of the object under test. Preliminary results show that the compressive reflector antenna outperforms traditional reflector antennas in terms of sensing channel capacity and reconstruction accuracy.