High resolution signal processing techniques for millimeter wave short range surveillance radar

Türk, Ahmet Serdar; Kīzīlay, Ahmet; Orhan, Melek; Çalışkan, Alper

doi:10.1109/irs.2016.7884697

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“…However, in the last decade, microwave components strongly improved their performances and reduced their dimensions and cost, making the realization of compact SFCW radars more feasible. Recently SWCW radars have been successfully adopted for GPR applications [3,4], landmine detection [5], surveillance [6], through the wall inspection [7], the monitoring of the structural integrity of engineering structures [8]- [10] or for biomedical applications such as the monitoring of human or animal life signals [11]- [13]. The last application can be very useful for police operation since it can be used to detect fugitives hidden inside improvised hiding places such as bunkers and wall false bottoms or human traffic.…”

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A Reconfigurable Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave Radar Prototype for Smuggling Contrast, Preliminary Assessment

Donelli¹,

Espa²,

Manekiya³

et al. 2021

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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A reconfigurable Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave (SFCW) radar prototype for supporting the italian financial police to contrast smuggling, is proposed in this work. In particular, the proposed radar can provide information related to the container contents and the presence of false bottoms speeding up the control operations at borders and ports. Moreover, it is able to reveal the presence of people hidden behind reinforced concrete hiding places. Radar resolution is improved by using suitable post-processing method such as the MUltiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm. Numerical as well as experimental results obtained considering realistic operative scenarios demonstrated the potentialities and capabilities of this system as an effective tool for smuggling contrast. The preliminary experimental results have been obtained using a compact radar prototype equipped with high gain and directivity antennas to cover all the different frequency bands.

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