radar mechanism to monitor diy radar reflectors made on aluminum foils or tape or cd, any alternative to radar?

>Wow your clairvoyance skills in determining the objective far exceed mine.

LOL, well it's not entirely clairvoyance or guessing - the OP provided this information in a reply comment at the very top of this thread (and yes, he should edit this post to indicate those details).

Raymond said:

"Radar reflector is the thing I want to detect, ahm a DIY radar reflector that they use on small ships or kayak, an aluminum foil or cd?"

-Nico

> Mark Archibald

> Nico teWinkel

you have guessed what I was going to do...

I myself cannot comprehend much on english thats why there's incomplete clues on what I was trying to say.

but also thank you for your suggestions and I'll keep those in mind.

The thing is, this is for a contest which is also a school project because we are required to do this kind of thing and yeah, I was trying to find an alternative way to monitor a diy radar reflector or just radar monitoring radar reflectors mounted on trees.

radar reflectors will be mounted to trees because it will act as a landmark that can be seen on an alternative radar which I still cannot find a suitable one.

those radar reflectors acting as a landmark on every trees will then identify that those are trees.

mounting radar reflectors on the top of the trees will I think help the possible radar (do you have a suggestion on an alternative?) to monitor much clear the radar reflectors.

since it will be on the forest the alternative radar mechanism of some type will monitor the radar reflector and disappearance on one of the radar reflectors will be then play as a warning on that tree that there is something happening.

it will be like an anti-illegal logging radar mechanism.

thats my study.

i hope you can suggest more...

thank you.

thank you, i'll keep that in mind next time.

It's interesting to me too : ) Not that I do boating, but just from technical curiosity.

The scenario that it's a competition and 25-50 meters would help them win sounds strange to me though. I hate being overly suspicious, but I can't believe anyone would bring up the idea of SDR for this unless they'd done some reading up. That. and also the fact that all the non-SDR and cheaper and easier suggestions have been ignored by Raymond (there have been several ideas overall, here and in the other discussions, that used different technologies).

Hi Raymond,

Thank you for the extra information.

Is your project to build the radar?  (and the reflectors are to test it)

or is it to build the radar reflectors? (and the radar is to test them)

Or is the project to find a way to monitor trees in a forest?

-Nico

Yeah, it would really help on school level competition in our province eyy.

Lidar sdr and microwave were suggested I was researching on those too.

To find a way to monitor trees in the forest.

ps, Thanks for updating the title and question.

Given the amount of time and discussion to find the *question* here, imagine how much help we could have already provided to find the answer by now

I learned from you guys, thank you again.