| ▲ | alhirzel 2 days ago |
| Years ago, this very subject was an interview question at a national lab (at an undergrad level). The question was roughly: > the ends of windmill blades look a lot like a jet on radar. If you were assigned to this project, what would your approach be to avoiding false positives? This was in 2011/2012. I find it difficult to believe the problem is not solved. |
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| ▲ | dmbche 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Realistically, isn't it a known presence on radar? It's static - you can't just ignore signals from that area in space? |
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| ▲ | tjohns 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, and more... You can use different antenna designs for a more directional radar beam. Or tilt the beam upwards to steer it around obstacles. You can also build a moving-target detector by looking at doppler shift to filter out objects that are moving too slowly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_target_indication | | |
| ▲ | egberts1 a day ago | parent [-] | | Curly blades makes it harder to lower its radar surface areas. |
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| ▲ | the_gipsy 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The enemy could be hiding precisely at the windmills /s | | |
| ▲ | robocat 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Perhaps if tip speed is X and radar installation is perpendicular to wind turbine, then an enemy can approach at speed X in the turbine's radar shadow. There would still be multiple pulses with timing differences but if there's a field of turbines then I'd guess there's enough interference/scatter to be a problem. Like using approaching from the sun causes problems for pilots. The reflections from the turbines would pulse due to the blades so in theory their scatter could be cancelled out in processing? |
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| ▲ | wkat4242 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Jets don't tend to fly around in little circles so there's that. And windmills don't move around a lot. I'm sure this is a solved problem. |
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| ▲ | xxen9 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | adleyjulian 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It has been solved. Get rid of all the windmills. Easy. |
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