EtherEye

EtherEye is an award-winning, next-generation passive reconnaissance system developed by a consortium of leaders in the Polish defense technology sector—XY-Sensing, Vortex, and SkyRad. The solution integrates Passive Coherent Location (PCL) radar technology, Passive Emitter Tracking (PET) radio frequency reconnaissance, electro-optical sensor integration, and advanced data fusion within a dedicated Command and Control (C2) platform: HORUS.


Undetectable, Covert Surveillance

Featuring a fully passive architecture, the system enables continuous detection, tracking, and classification of targets—including drones/UAVs and manned aircraft—without radiating any RF signals. This guarantees absolute operational stealth and inherent immunity to adversary electronic jamming and electronic warfare (EW) countermeasures.


Integrated Multi-Sensor Data Fusion

PCL – Passive Radar (Passive Coherent Location)

  • Operating Principle: Exploits ambient commercial broadcast transmissions ("illuminators of opportunity") to detect and track non-cooperative airborne objects.
  • Detection Range: Up to 250 km (depending on deployment geometry and available transmitters).
  • Architecture: Multi-static, distributed sensor network.

PET – Sensor RF (Passive Emitter Tracking)

  • Operating Principle: Interception, direction finding, and identification of radio frequency emissions (communications links, UAV telemetry, and onboard radars).
  • Frequency Range: 2 MHz – 40 GHz (customizable to specific operational requirements).
  • Application: Rapid emitter type identification and Electronic Intelligence / Signals Intelligence (SIGINT/ELINT) support.

HORUS – Command and Control System (C2 Layer)

  • Data Fusion: Advanced correlation and fusion of data streams from PCL radars, PET sensors, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) cameras, and effector/countermeasure systems.
  • Multi-Target Tracking: Automated threat prioritization, velocity vector calculation, altitude (MSL) tracking, and trajectory heading estimation.
  • Real-Time Classification: Algorithmic probability estimation of target categories (e.g., DRONE / JET / AUAS).
  • Open Architecture: Modular scalability and seamless integration into external C4ISR networks, air defense systems, and counter-drone architectures.

Integration with EO/IR and Countermeasures

  • Automated slaving and cueing of day/night EO/IR camera payloads onto detected tracks.
  • Interoperability with electronic countermeasure systems (soft-kill/jamming) and kinetic neutralization platforms (hard-kill drone defense).

Applications

State Border Protection

Persistent, 24/7 air and maritime domain surveillance against unauthorized border incursions and illicit trafficking.

Critical Infrastructure Defense

Protection of international airports, seaports, energy infrastructure, oil refineries, and command facilities.

Military Operational Support

Covert early warning in dense electronic warfare environments without compromising force locations.

Counter-UAS (C-UAS) Defense

High-precision detection and tracking of low-altitude, low-RCS unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous drone swarms.

Solution developed and deployed in partnership with the industrial consortium

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