Automotive Elevation Mapping with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08495v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:57:35 GMT
• Title: Automotive Elevation Mapping with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
• Authors: Leyla A. Kabuli, Griffin Foster,
• Abstract summary: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a class of techniques to improve azimuth resolution and sensitivity for radar. Interferometric SAR can be used to extract elevation from the variations in phase measurements in SAR images. We show that a typical, low-resolution radar array mounted on a vehicle can be used to accurately localize detections in 3D space for both urban and agricultural environments.
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• Abstract: Radar is a low-cost and ubiquitous automotive sensor, but is limited by array resolution and sensitivity when performing direction of arrival analysis. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a class of techniques to improve azimuth resolution and sensitivity for radar. Interferometric SAR (InSAR) can be used to extract elevation from the variations in phase measurements in SAR images. Utilizing InSAR we show that a typical, low-resolution radar array mounted on a vehicle can be used to accurately localize detections in 3D space for both urban and agricultural environments. We generate point clouds in each environment by combining InSAR with a signal processing scheme tailored to automotive driving. This low-compute approach allows radar to be used as a primary sensor to map fine details in complex driving environments, and be used to make autonomous perception decisions.

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