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ALERT Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Award Number 2008-ST-061-ED0001. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.Whole Body Imaging with Millimeter-Wave Radar

Matt Nickerson

Prof. Carey Rappaport, Principal InvestigatorSpiros Mantzavinos, Research Assistant

Overall Project GoalImprove upon whole body scanners currently used in airports.

Current State of the Art

Our design

Razor blade antenna

Rx Arc arraysReconstructionplane

Simulation

The Setup

TargetReceiverReflectorTransmitter

MaterialShape and Location

My GoalsSpeed and QualityNew Hardware and Programming

Hardware

VNAScopeDigitizer

Programming

Speed and QualityVNA2.5 hoursScope30 minutes

Digitizer22 minutes

Threat Detection

Next StepsImprove image collection speedsBetter Digitizer CardArbitrary Waveform GeneratorImprove image qualityMechanical setupAlgorithms

AcknowledgementsProfessor Carey Rappaport; Principal InvestigatorSpiros Mantzavinos, Yolanda Rodriguez-Baqueiro, Professor Jose Martinez; Research AssistantsBorja Gonzalez-Valdes; Post-Doctoral ResearcherDan Busoic; ConsultantRichard Moore; Research Advisor

Funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

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