UWB radar signal processing for through wall tracking of multiple moving targets

Through wall tracking can be very helpful in the situations where the entering of a room or a building is considered hazardous and it is desired to inspect its interior from outside through the walls. In majority of such cases, the tracking of multiple moving targets is needed. The radar signal processing for this application has to deal with several supplementary tasks in comparison with a single target tracking. Their solution is included in the complex signal processing procedure introduced in this paper. The experimental results obtained by the real radar signal processing confirm good performance properties of the proposed procedure.

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