Measurements and Analysis of the Doppler Signature of a Human Moving within the Forest in UHF-Band

• Main Authors: Giovanni Manfredi, Israel D. Hinostroza Sáenz, Michel Menelle, Stéphane Saillant, Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-01-01
• Series: Remote Sensing
• Subjects: Doppler radar; forest; micro-Doppler; moving target detection; remote sensing; Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT)
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/3/423

Measurements of the Doppler signature in UHF-band of a human moving in outdoor sites are presented in this paper. A radar campaign has been carried out, observing a subject walking and running outside, near and within a forest. A bistatic radar has been employed working in continuous wave (CW) at 1 GHz and 435 MHz. The spectrograms acquired in VV polarization are shown and discussed. This study aims to prove the feasibility of detecting people moving in forested areas at low frequencies. Besides, we highlight the impact of the frequencies and the different sites on the Doppler spectrum of the human motions. The Doppler frequency signature of the moving man has been well detected at 1 GHz and 435 MHz for each motor activity and scene. The working frequency 435 MHz has proved to be more efficient for the detection and classification of the physical activities.