Other military radars that operate on the same C-band frequency include naval radars such as the Japanese FCS-3, the Chinese Type-381 and the Russian S-400 Surface to Air Missile system. All should be detectable when switched on and in view of Sentinel-1.
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# How to find a military radar
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in order to monitor a large area for the presence of ground-based radars in the past seven years, follow these steps:
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1. Navigate to your area of interest by dragging the map and zooming in or out.
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2. Where it says “Display imagery aggregated by”, select “Year” from the dropdown menu.
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3. Click on a random date in each year to load data from that entire year
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- For example, clicking on June 10th, 2018 will load a composite image for all of 2018.
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- Repeat this for each year.
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4.If you spot interference, click on it to reveal the dates that the signal is detected.
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5. Zoom to the interference stripe and gradually decrease opacity to find the source of the interference using the high resolution satellite basemap.