Posted on 06/29/2021 5:07:07 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Wavsens LLC have developed a method for using radio signals to create real-time images and videos of hidden and moving objects, which could help firefighters find escape routes or victims inside buildings filled with fire and smoke. The technique could also help track hypersonic objects such as missiles and space debris.
The new method, described in Nature Communications, could provide critical information to help reduce deaths and injuries. Locating and tracking first responders indoors is a prime goal for the public safety community. Hundreds of thousands of pieces of orbiting space junk are considered dangerous to humans and spacecraft.
"Our system allows real-time imaging around corners and through walls and tracking of fast-moving objects such as millimeter-sized space debris flying at 10 kilometers per second, more than 20,000 miles per hour, all from standoff distances," said physicist Fabio da Silva, who led the development of the system while working at NIST.
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Bkmk
Your home may be your castle but this invention just glassed it walls.
Of course this would never be used against us law abiding citizens
Too late and costly for lead shielded drywall, floors and ceilings.
TTW (thru the wall) imaging using UWB has been around for years. Police and military are very interested.
They re invented the marine Fish Finder.
nooooo........never.....
What if you put farday-type material in your walls?
I would think that metal siding and a metal roof would kill this device.
This technology is what was causing the health issues in Cuba that made our people sick.
But it can’t be used to find survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building.
No, that was audio technology. This is radio.
All this sounds like it requires math and math is racist!
Wasn’t there a Swartzenegger movie about this tech, used with a special rifle? He was trying to protect a witness to a crime, IMS.
“TTW (thru the wall) imaging using UWB has been around for years. “
Yep. Dunno what is so different about this.
“millimeter-sized space debris “
This implies sensitivity not really possible over any sort of distance.
The audio was a side effect of this technology.
Eraser?
“What if you put farday-type material in your walls?”
The cage would need to be more like a fine mesh at those wavelengths.
Can it penetrate Chinas poisonous green sheetrock
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