A passive or passive coherent location (PCL) radar does not have an own transmitter or require owning spectrum, making it a very cost effective instrument for tracking non-cooperative targets. The paper discusses achievements in FM-based passive radar developments in South Africa, including a brief summary of experimental results. The paper then introduces a project to characterise and quantify the passive radar’s performance in a six radar nodes testbed being around the major South African airport near Johannesburg and intended to prove the technology and enable addressing the needs of air traffic control (ATC) in developing countries.
Reference:
Lysko, A.A. and Maasdorp, F.D.V. 2017. South African passive radar and towards its characterisation. Proceedings of the 2017 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2017), 22-25 May 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 3795-3801
Lysko, A. A., & Maasdorp, F. D. (2017). South African passive radar and towards its characterisation. IEEE. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10122
Lysko, Albert A, and Francois DV Maasdorp. "South African passive radar and towards its characterisation." (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10122
Lysko AA, Maasdorp FD, South African passive radar and towards its characterisation; IEEE; 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10122 .
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