This tutorial describes the basis of passive bistatic radar (PBR) systems, and in particular the nature of the waveforms of illuminators of opportunity that they exploit. It shows that there is a wide variety of such waveforms, from broadcast, communications and radionavigation transmissions, and that in general they are not optimum for radar purposes. In addition, they usually vary significant...

Passive, bistatic radar offers an attractive method for remotely detecting and imaging targets without the requirement of a dedicated transmitter. Passive radar systems are usually cheaper than their active counterparts, which easily allows for multi-sensor networks. Furthermore, passive radar systems are difficult to detect and jam. With these advantages come several challenges, however. Bista...

Passive Bistatic Radar (PBR), or Passive Coherent Location, is gaining interest in the radar community as it provides some advantages with respect to active radar. Although, passive radar does not aim to replace active radar, it provides a good complement to it. The computational effort that is required to implement the required signal processing is one of the drawbacks that affect passive rada...

In the part of radiolocation focused on one target tracking we can find for example active radar and passive surveillance systems but we cannot find any representative of passive radiolocation area. Therefore this paper is focused on the conceptual design and practical solution of passive radar for one target tracking. The scanning of the area of interest is ensured by an antenna system with a ...

this paper addresses the signal processing principles in passive bistatic radar (pbr) systems. in this case, the detection problem in the presence of system noise, clutter/multipath, direct signal and interfering target signals is investigated. to this light, two types of detectors are studied. in the first one, which is based on intuitive sense, we examine two detectors. in the second type det...

Bistatic radar systems will play a great role in the coming decade since a large number of radar missions are being foreseen. Using existing transmitters, formations of small passive receivers will enhance our capability to gather backscatter information from earth. A bistatic SAR system operates with separated transmitting and receiving antenna and both can follow independent trajectories. If ...

A low-cost passive bistatic radar system using digital video broadcasting satellites (DVB-S) as illuminators of opportunity is presented. The system was developed using off-the-shelf components which a global cost of approximately 100 Euros. To increase the target detectability using DVB-S signals in a non-coherent environment a novel methodology, using a reference target and some basic signal ...

Conventional civil Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems are able to detect targets and identify collaborative aircrafts in the air space but they don’t ensure full coverage at low altitudes, in presence of non-cooperative targets (NCTs) and aircraft (A/C) with a low value of radar cross section (RCS). This paper describes the ARGUS 3D (AiR GUidance and Surveillance 3D) project funded by the Europe...

Bistatic pulse-Doppler airborne radar has desirable properties such as the low probability of detection by other radars relative to its monostatic counterpart. However, the clutter characteristics of bistatic airborne radar are more complex than those of monostatic airborne radar. The clutter spectra not only vary severely with range, but also vary with bistatic configuration. In this article, ...