Non-Coherent DVB-S Passive Radar Demonstrator

In recent years passive radar systems research has been increasingly focused on the use of satellite opportunity signals, and DVB-S signals in particular, since these offer virtually global coverage. Several papers have been published recently proving the effectiveness of very simple demonstrators based on COTS. However, conventional architectures struggle to employ coherent channels on the receiver impacting directly in their cost. In this work we show preliminary results for ground targets obtained using a very low-cost non-coherent COTS architecture.