Passive millimeter-wave imaging for concealed article detection

John A. Lovberg; Joseph A. Galliano Jr.; Stuart Enz Clark

doi:10.1117/12.266730

18 February 1997 Passive millimeter-wave imaging for concealed article detection

John A. Lovberg, Joseph A. Galliano Jr., Stuart Enz Clark

Proceedings Volume 2938, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence Systems for Law Enforcement; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.266730
Event: Enabling Technologies for Law Enforcement and Security, 1996, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

Passive-millimeter-wave imaging (PMI) provides a powerful sensing tool for law enforcement, allowing an unobtrusive means for detecting concealed weapons, explosives, or contraband on persons or in baggage. Natural thermal emissions at millimeter wavelengths from bodies, guns, explosives, and other articles pass easily through clothing or other concealment materials, where they can be detected and converted into conventional 2-dimensional images. A new implementation of PMI has demonstrated a large-area, near- real-time staring capability for personnel inspection at standoff ranges of greater than 10 meters. In this form, PMI does not require operator cuing based on subjective 'profiles' of suspicious appearance or behaviors, which may otherwise be construed as violations of civil rights. To the contrary, PMI detects and images heat generated by any object with no predisposition as to its nature or function (e.g. race or gender of humans). As a totally passive imaging tool, it generates no radio-frequency or other radiation which might raise public health concerns. Specifics of the new PMI architecture are presented along with a host of imaging data representing the current state- of-the-art.

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John A. Lovberg, Joseph A. Galliano Jr., and Stuart Enz Clark "Passive millimeter-wave imaging for concealed article detection", Proc. SPIE 2938, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence Systems for Law Enforcement, (18 February 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.266730

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