When Does Multipath Improve Imaging Resolution?
In this paper, we characterize resolution limits for imaging in electromagnetic spectrum where multipath is commonly encountered, e.g., spectrum often used for wireless communication. We analyze a passive system configuration with an aperture of fixed spatial extent sampling fields backscattered from an imaging scene consisting of both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) paths. We characterize the resolution limits using the degrees of freedom (DoF) metric.