Micro-Doppler Effect in Radar

Dr. Victor C. Chen, a Life Fellow of IEEE, is internationally recognized for his work on micro-Doppler effect in radar and time-frequency-based radar image formation. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He is the co-founder and Technical Director of Ancortek, Inc. He authored or co-authored numerous papers in journals, proceedings, and books.

• Introduction; Basics of the Micro-Doppler Effect in Radar; The Micro-Doppler Effect of the Rigid Body Motion; The Micro-Doppler Effect of the Non-Rigid Body Motion; Applied to Vital Sign Detection; Applied to Hand Gesture Recognition; Overview of the Micro-Doppler Radar System; Analysis of Interpretation of Micro-Doppler Signatures; Summary, Challenges and Perspectives.

Written by a prominent expert in the field, this updated and expanded second edition of an Artech House classic includes the most recent breakthroughs in vital sign and gender recognition via micro-radar, as well as covering basic principles of Doppler effect and micro-Doppler effect and describing basic applications of micro-Doppler signatures in radar. The book presents detailed procedures about how to generate and analyze micro-Doppler signatures from radar signals. Readers will learn how to model and animate an object (such as human, spinning top, rotating rotor blades) with movement, simulation of radar returns from the object, and generating micro-Doppler signature.