Vehicle Length Estimation Using an LTE Transmitter Combined with a Software-Defined Receiver

Ram Narayanan; Clark Handel

doi:10.1109/LSENS.2021.3086055

Vehicle Length Estimation Using an LTE Transmitter Combined with a Software-Defined Receiver

Ram Narayanan, Clark Handel

Electrical Engineering

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Unobtrusive determination of an intruding vehicle's length is useful for threat assessments in perimeter surveillance, law enforcement, and antiterrorism applications. We describe a passive radar architecture wherein a broadcast signal from a cellular mobile communication system radio transmitter is bistatically scattered by a moving vehicle and received and processed in a software-defined radio platform. Measurement of the maximum Doppler frequency and the target viewing time combined with the known geometry of the measurement scenario permits the estimation of the target vehicle's length. Good agreement is observed between actual and estimated lengths for various vehicle types.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	9445604
Journal	IEEE Sensors Letters
Volume	5
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2021.3086055
State	Published - Jun 2021

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Instrumentation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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