Passive/Active Radar: Links to Other Resources
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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
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
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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
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- Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
-
F-117 page at American Fighters and Bombers page - Another
F-117 page at geocities - Thinkquest’s F-117 page
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- 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.