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dlb2007
28-01-2009, 11:11 AM
Through-the-Wall Surveillance

TWS technology typically has been developed for military use; however, it is now transitioning to law enforcement

Actor Kevin Costner said it best in the 2006 movie The Guardian, in which he played a legendary U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer. During a conversation with one of his young charges, he said, “There will come a time when you might have to decide who lives and who dies out there. It’s a terrible responsibility, but it’s one you will have to make . . . . The bigger reality is it’s also something you are going to have to live with as a human being.”

SoldierVision device, which creates a two-dimensional color image depicting range and distance to objects in motion. This device penetrates 60 feet into a room and has a standoff capability, allowing it to be 30 feet away from a wall and still penetrate 30 feet into the room. another version, the RadarVision2 device, is FCC certified.[6] The range of the RadarVision2, however, is cut in half, providing a penetration of 30 feet into rooms.

the Camero Xaver™ 800 product, which produces a 3-D display of a room in real time.[8] Full 3-D imaging can be accomplished up to 26 feet, and it has an extended imaging range of up to 65 feet. Operators can see not only the shape of the room, but also figures moving around or in one place within the room. A person’s height and distance from walls or objects can be estimated quite easily

A search is reasonable, and a search warrant is not required if all of the circumstances known to the officer at the time would cause a reasonable person to believe that entry or search was necessary.

i.e upto the discrestion of the officer

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/258/through-the-wall-surveillance.html