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jasondavies on Oct 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT can now see through concrete walls

Commercial through-wall radar back in 2005, but using UWB instead of S-band: http://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/news_pr150.html

It's not clear what the advantage of using S-band is. Higher resolution, perhaps?

jpdoctor on Oct 18, 2011 [–]

Narrow band electronics are a whole lot easier, and with a lot longer history. Source power is also easier.

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