Research Summaries

Back Sensing and Identifying People Carrying Wires on Their Body for IED Detonation

Fiscal Year 2009
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department National Security Institute
Investigator(s) Fox, William P.
Sponsor Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (Joint)
Summary The project will begin with the radar effort by constructing physical models of a suspect with specific "typical" patterns of wires attached and modeling the radar cross section using the numerical electromagnetic code (NEC) in a standard software package. The main objective of the radar system is to single out subjects that have wires on their person. The radar will attempt to discriminate (at a safe distance) between suspects with wires and those without wires by the enhanced radar cross section due to the wires. This effort will likely require a frequency agile radar that can sense the wires on a frequency that is resonant with the wire structure.
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