Software defined radar studies of human motion signatures

The detection and monitoring of human motion with radar has numerous applications in surveillance, urban military operations, search-and-rescue, and other areas. Recent studies have shown that movements of humans generate unique micro-Doppler signatures that can be exploited to classify human motions. This motivates an improved understanding of human Doppler signatures. Numerous simulations and measurements of human “dismount” signatures has been performed in the past, but most have been focused on a single radar center-frequency and have not taken polarization effects into consideration. In this paper, human modeling and motion measurements using multiple radar frequencies are proposed to explore the impact of the radar frequency on human range/Doppler signatures. Furthermore, ground effects on human targets are investigated using a four path model. The OSU Software defined radar (SDR) system, which can be tuned from 2GHz to 18 GHz with 500MHz bandwidth, was used for the measurements. This radar can operate at two frequencies simultaneously, allowing for dual frequency human measurements. Also, different polarizations are considered to understand human Doppler signatures. Modeling efforts are based on a finite dielectric cylinder approximation, so that the human body is modeled as a collection of dielectric cylinders. Scattering signatures are computed neglecting scattering interactions among these cylinders.

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