Passive/Active Radar: Links to Other Resources

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 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

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