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2014-06-15
Analysis of Moving Human Micro-Doppler Signature in Forest Environments
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Jose Miguel Garcia-Rubia,

    Dr. Jose Miguel Garcia-Rubia

    The Catholic University of America

    USA

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Ozlem Kilic,

    Dr. Ozlem Kilic

    The Catholic University of America

    USA

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Vinh Dang,

    Dr. Vinh Dang

    The Catholic University of America

    USA

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Quang M. Nguyen,

    Dr. Quang M. Nguyen

    The Catholic University of America

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Nghia Tran

    Dr. Nghia Tran

    The Catholic University of America

    USA

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Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 148, 1-14, 2014
doi:10.2528/PIER14012306
Abstract
Automatic detection of human motion is important for security and surveillance applications. Compared to other sensors, radar sensors present advantages for human motion detection and identification because of their all-weather and day-and-night capabilities, as well as the fact that they detect targets at a long range. This is particularly advantageous in the case of remote and highly cluttered radar scenes. The objective of this paper is to investigate human motion in highly cluttered forest medium to observe the characteristics of the received Doppler signature from the scene. For this purpose we attempt to develop an accurate model accounting for the key contributions to the Doppler signature for the human motion in a forest environment. Analytical techniques are combined with full wave numerical methods such as Method of Moments (MoM) enhanced with Fast Multipole Method (FMM) to achieve a realistic representation of the signature from the scene. Mutual interactions between the forest and the human as well as the attenuation due to the vegetation are accounted for. Due to the large problem size, parallel programming techniques that utilize a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) based cluster are used.
Citation
Jose Miguel Garcia-Rubia Ozlem Kilic Vinh Dang Quang M. Nguyen Nghia Tran , "Analysis of Moving Human Micro-Doppler Signature in Forest Environments," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 148, 1-14, 2014.
doi:10.2528/PIER14012306
http://www.jpier.org/PIER/pier.php?paper=14012306
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