Radar Detection of Moving Targets Behind Corners

Detection of moving objects concealed behind a concrete wall corner has been demonstrated, using Doppler-based techniques with a stepped-frequency radar centered at 10 GHz, in a reduced-scale model of a street scenario. Micro-Doppler signatures have been traced in the return from a human target, both for walking and for breathing. Separate material measurements of the reflection and transmission of the concrete in the wall have showed that wall reflections are the dominating wave propagation mechanism for producing target detections, while wave components transmitted through the walls could be neglected. Weaker detections have been made of target returns via diffraction in the wall corner. A simple and fast algorithm for the detection and generation of detection tracks in down range has been developed, based on moving target indication technique.