Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Passive RADAR

[Eric Blossom]

FYI,

The June 2005 issue of IEE Proceedings - Radar, Sonar and Navigation,
volume 152, issue 3 is all about Passive RADAR.

Here's the abstract from the introduction:

  This IEE Special Issue on passive radar systems coincides with the
  seventieth anniversary of the first British radar experiment at
  Daventry in February 1935. The papers in this Special Issue cover
  the full spectrum of topics currently being researched in the area
  of passive radar systems. There are papers addressing the use of a
  variety of transmitters of opportunity -FM radio, digital audio
  broadcast (DAB), digital video broadcast (DVB), global navigation
  satellite systems and cell-phone base-stations - plus one paper that
  looks at detecting targets by radiometry. Other papers examine
  specific signal processing issues, including the problem of nearby
  large targets masking smaller more distant targets, improved
  computational performance for cross-correlation processing and the
  use of the probability hypothesis density (PHD) tracker to solve the
  problem of multistatic passive radars with non-directional
  antennas. Finally, a number of papers look at the issues of
  performance and deployment modelling and address the problems of
  optimally siting the radar receivers for passive radar and
  bearings-only systems and predicting the performance of passive
  radar systems. A common feature in all the systems described in this
  Special Issue is the extensive use of digital hardware and software
  processing and it seems inevitable that in the future we might see
  the development of passive radar systems that simultaneously exploit
  a wide range of different transmissions of opportunity.

Eric