Monitoring of Vespucci bridge in Florence, Italy using a fast real aperture radar and a MIMO radar

Real-aperture radar are commonly used for remote monitoring/testing of bridges. They are fast, accurate and reliable, but they cannot provide two-dimensional images of the bridge under test. Interferometric multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is an emerging technology that promises to give good-quality two-dimensional interferometric images of buildings and bridges. During the static test of the Vespucci bridge in the city of Florence, Italy, a X-band MIMO radar has been operated simultaneously with a real-aperture interferometric Ku-band radar. The experimental results obtained by the two different radar have been successfully compared.