Open AccessBeamforming and holography image formation methods: an analytic study
Author(s) -
Raffaele Solimene,
Antonio Cuccaro,
Giuseppe Ruvio,
Daniel Flores Tapia,
Martin O’Halloran
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.24.009077
Subject(s) - beamforming , holography , computer science , optics , discretization , radar , point spread function , radar imaging , range (aeronautics) , physics , computer vision , telecommunications , mathematics , materials science , mathematical analysis , composite material
Beamforming and holographic imaging procedures are widely used in many applications such as radar sensing, sonar, and in the area of microwave medical imaging. Nevertheless, an analytical comparison of the methods has not been done. In this paper, the Point Spread Functions pertaining to the two methods are analytically determined. This allows a formal comparison of the two techniques, and to easily highlight how the performance depends on the conguration parameters, including frequency range, number of scatterers, and data discretization. It is demonstrated that the beamforming and holography basically achieve the same resolution but beamforming requires a cheaper (less sensors) conguration..