Paper Accepted: ATSC 3.0 Passive Radar at SPIE Defense + Security 2026

I am pleased to share that my paper, “Understanding the signal structure in ATSC 3.0 signals for passive radar detection,” has been accepted for presentation at SPIE Defense + Security 2026.

The paper will be presented at the Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXXV conference in National Harbor this April.

This work builds on the passive radar concepts I have been writing about in this blog series. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how ATSC 3.0’s signal structure—the same broadcasts delivering next-generation television—can be optimized for passive radar applications.

The research examines ATSC 3.0’s ambiguity function characteristics and introduces mismatched filter techniques that significantly reduce range ambiguities compared to existing DVB-T approaches.

For those following the passive radar series here, this paper represents the technical foundation behind what I have been describing. The conference presentation will be an opportunity to discuss these findings with the defense and signal processing community.

More details to come as the conference approaches.