Low-Cost Radars Integrated into a Landslide Early Warning System

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.