Revista: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Vol. 47. Pp. 1796-1805. June 2009

Autores: José González-Partida, Pablo Almorox González, Mateo Burgos García, José-Ignacio Alonso Montes y B. Pablo Dorta

The use of millimeter-wave radars allows a weight and size reduction of circuits and antennas, which is an important
characteristic for Through-the-Wall Surveillance (TWS) applications. Furthermore, when using the millimeter-wave band, a large amount of bandwidth can be easily transmitted, given that the relative bandwidth is smaller. This leads to a high range resolution that allows for the discrimination of several targets that are very close in range, e.g., inside a room. The azimuth resolution is also improved due to the availability in this band of directive antennas with small dimensions. This paper studies the feasibility of using a millimeter-wave linear frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar in a TWS application. A TWS experiment in a real scenario has been done to demonstrate the validity of the theoretical analysis.