How Passive Radar Works

(passiveradar.com)

33 points | by surprisetalk 2 days ago

6 comments

  • wpietri 1 minute ago
    What's this website? Who put it up?

    Those have always been good questions to ask, but especially these days.

  • aurizon 2 minutes ago
    I wonder if the many Starlink satellites can be used for this? True, the signals are low and are steered, but the nature of steering creates many side lobes that will be useable in this manner. It would be a complex computational task with satellites in motion as well as ground stations transmitting on offset frequencies. I suspect various research/military labs are playing with this?
  • smartscience 47 minutes ago
    Are there any clever tricks for the data processing involved here, given that the delay is a shift in the time domain and the Doppler effect is a shift in the frequency domain? Maybe involving fractional Fourier transforms, or wavelets?
    • vscode-rest 3 minutes ago
      Lots of clever tricks, all ITAR controlled.
  • quantum_state 1 hour ago
    If one visualizes the electromagnetic field in the environment, including all objects in it and any changes, one would naturally come across many applications in sensing the associated changes in the field. One classic example is the eavesdropping case at Moscow US embassy in the former Soviet Union.
  • sebasv_ 1 hour ago
    I want this, but I do not have the experience with radio signals to build this myself without more guidance. Is there a DIY proof of concept I could lean on? How much more challenging will this be if you are in an area with overlapping FM signals from 2 transmitters sending the same signal?
    • lormayna 1 hour ago
      This is a very good point to start: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/passive-radar/

      If you have more than one receiver, the main issue is time sincronisation between the receivers.

      Using the two transmitters will complicate things a lot

      • willis936 18 minutes ago
        For this kind of thing you need to step up to the kraken.
    • quantum_state 1 hour ago
      Would suggest to take a look at Jackson’s book on classical electrodynamics to get some intuition.
  • Chrisszz 1 hour ago
    a website for passive radars, cool xD