Passive/Active Radar: Links to Other Resources

Main	Links	Papers
Research	Project Only	UIUC Only

ATR Theory

• John Hopkins Center
  for Imaging Science (formerly the U.S. Army Center for Imaging
  Science)

• AFOSR MURI on Reduced Signature Target
  Recognition (added 5/17/00)

• Metric Pattern
  Theory Collaborative

Passive and/or Low-Frequency Radar

• Story on ABC news website
  (also appeared on “World News Tonight”) –
  interesting and well-written, although somewhat sensationalized

• The
  
  Manastash Ridge Radar at the Univ. of Washington
  uses commercial FM radio broadcasts. It is part of
  Prof.
  John Sahr’s
  Radar Remote
  Sensing Laboratory.

• The French organization
  ONERA
  appears to be investigating
  passive radar. One particular sentence caught my eye: “Experiments
  were carried out on
  digital TV transmitters, which improve position-detection performance.”

• A company called
  
  Avtec seems to be working on passive radar (their systems
  appears to be very much like Silent Sentry – unfortunately, few details are
  available on the Avtec website beyond some pretty pictures)

• 
  FGAN, the German Research Institute for High Frequency Physics and
  Radar Techniques,
  also seems to be working on passive radar, but again, there’s not many
  details…

• Meteor
  shower observations at VHF frequencies (added 8/6/00)

Computational Electromagnetics

• Electromagnetic Code Consortium
• Code used in
  conjuction with the text Computational Methods for Electromagnetics

• An <A HREF="ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/subjects/fastmultipole.bib"extensive
  bibliography on Fast Multipole Methods

CAD Modeling Technology

• Matis, Inc. – a company that makes
  GeomFix, a program for repairing CAD models

• Crossroads
  is a very thorough, easy-to-use CAD format converter by Keith Rule (runs
  on Windows machines)

• The
  NSF Engineering Research Center for
  Computational Field Simulation at Mississippi State

CAD Models

• Viewpoint Digital makes some
  very good models; a few were FISC compatible right out of the box, and
  a few I was able to make FISC compatible with a bit of work. They’re
  expensive but probably worth it. Their library is extensive.

• Mesh Factory
• Ultimate 3D Links
• Amazing 3D Graphics

General Radar

• Electromagnetic Scattering
  Group at the Univ. of Texas (great movies, but in desperate need
  of an update)

• ElectroScience Laboratory
  at Ohio State Univ. (added 5/31/99)

ISAR

• ISAR
  images of an asteriod

Bistatic Radar

• Bistatic
  Radar Home Page at the Univ. of Oklahoma

• 
  Bistatic Measurement Facility at the Univ. of Michigan

Television & Radio

• www.100000watts.com – detailed
  info on locations, powers, etc. of radio and television transmitters

• Some lecture notes on Conventional Analog Television by Kelin Kuhn

Aircraft Designs

• McDonnell-Douglas A-12 Avenger II – A remarkable looking aircraft which,
  alas, never flew. It’s a fascinating stealth design.
  The A-12 program cut by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney (now President
  of the U.S.) in the largest
  program termination in
  the history of the DOD. Many lawsuits followed on all sides. Turned out
  to be a very messy affair…
  • Tom Naylor’s A-12 page
  • A-12 page by the Federation of American Scientists
  • The Flying
    Dorito
• Dassault Falcon Aircraft
  • 
    Falcon 20 info from Dassault Aviation’s website

  • 
    Falcon 100 info from Dassault Aviation’s website

  • Falcon 20
    info at Amerijet website

  • Falcon 100
    info at Amerijet website
• Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
  • 
    F-117 page at American Fighters and Bombers page

  • Another
    F-117 page at geocities

  • Thinkquest’s F-117 page
• Northrop B-2
  • 
    B-2 page at American Fighters and Bombers page

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Last updated 6/14/01. Send comments or questions to
lanterma@ifp.uiuc.edu.