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Martin Dudok van Heel of Olifantasia will give a talk on Passive radar at the SDRA subconference at HAMRADIO 2015 in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Passive Radar at home, electrosmog made useful - Signal analysis magic with received radio signals and their reflections:
This talk is about using the reflections of FM-radio and GPS satellites signals to do passive radar.

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Passive Radar at home, electrosmog made useful - Signal analysis magic with received radio signals and their reflections:
This talk is about using the reflections of FM-radio and GPS satellites signals to do passive radar.

With passive radar you can analyze everything that reflects radiowaves without transmitting anything yourself. The airplanes, cars, buildings, amount of rainfall, the condition of the atmosphere layers, ionized gases, landscape layout, ocean waves, meteorites or individual humans or machines moving inside or outside buildings. Even most stealth airplanes can be detected by passive radar when the signals of distant transmitters are reflected down to the receiving passive radar station.

With the building blocks, normally used for implementing Software Defined Radio Systems you can also do very interesting signal analysis. You can use the opensource toolkits GNU Radio (SDR) + Octave (math) + your own code to analyze the direct path and reflections of any kind of wireless signal. You can use this to do passive radar, which is the art of generating a radar image by analyzing the reflections of signals you have not transmitted yourself. You need to be able to somehow obtain an estimate of the original transmitted signal without reflections, and compare/correlate that to the signal with reflections. Then use the time of arrival, phase, Doppler shift and direction of arrival to determine the exact location, speed and strength of (the source of the) refection, and thus generate a passive radar image.