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Radar activities performed at University of Calabria in the framework of a national project on “Landslides Early Warning” are described in this contribution. After a brief outline of the whole Landslides Early Warning Integrated System, two compact and low-cost radar configurations, the first one based on the adoption of a software radio platform, the second one using a compact Vector Network Analyzer as SFCW scatterometer module, are deeply described. Experimental results are discussed as validation tests to demonstrate the radars range detection capabilities.
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Costanzo, S. et al. (2015). Low-Cost Radars Integrated into a Landslide Early Warning System. In: Rocha, A., Correia, A., Costanzo, S., Reis, L. (eds) New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16528-8_2
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