Localization of Vibrating Targets Using Dual-Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar and Time-Frequency Analysis

An important task in urban sensing applications is to accurately localize moving and vibrating targets in the presence of significant background clutter. A dual-frequency radar, which estimates the range of a target based on the phase difference between two closely spaced frequencies, has been shown to be a cost-effective approach for range estimation of a moving target. Previous work has shown that the use of time-frequency analysis techniques provides an estimate of instantaneous Doppler signature and enhanced signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), thereby enabling the range estimation of multiple moving targets and significantly improving the estimation accuracy. In this paper, we consider the combined use of these technologies with a synthetic aperture array for the localization of inanimated moving targets. The synthetic array aperture provides the capability of high-resolution spatial localization of multiple moving targets, as well as determining the orientation of the vibration.