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An Adaptive-MSSA-Based Algorithm for Detection of Trapped Victims Using UWB Radar


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Postdisaster search and rescue is an important application of ultrawideband (UWB) radar systems, which mainly detect trapped victims by their respiratory-motion response....Show More

Abstract:

Postdisaster search and rescue is an important application of ultrawideband (UWB) radar systems, which mainly detect trapped victims by their respiratory-motion response. The development of a respiratory-motion detection (RMD) algorithm that can eliminate nonstationary clutter and noise is a challenging task for the application. A new algorithm is proposed to deal with the task in this letter. It uses the multichannel singular spectrum analysis (MSSA) technique to reconstruct the respiratory-motion response detected by a UWB radar. During the reconstruction, the periodicity and range interrelation characteristics of the response are exploited to adaptively identify signal subspaces. The performance of the algorithm is verified both by simulated and real data. The results show its improved performance over the reference algorithms, e.g., a singular-value-decomposition-based algorithm. The adaptive-MSSA-based RMD algorithm has great promise not only in practical use but also for future research of UWB-radar-based human being remote sensing.
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ( Volume: 12, Issue: 9, September 2015)
Page(s): 1808 - 1812
Date of Publication: 19 May 2015

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