AI signal coverage for DroneRadar

Idea and intended value

Complete the existing radio-coverage asset and assess its use in DroneRadar. The user asked for examination of the repository and related Claude chats, with idea-specific data linked to shared knowledge.¹

Recommendation: build a reproducible propagation-map capability first, then test its usefulness for measurement planning and receiver placement. Existing code and simulator results are promising; model integration, domain validation and detector calibration remain incomplete. This recommendation is not an implementation decision.³

Current scope and authorization

Owner chat: 01a12433-f321-7eb0-a4d5-2ed2ad6da6fc.

Current scope: approved v002, SHA-256 e26081fb0784158bae0c2daa91e98d4e6348f7a9c27336787a4faf7521cb06a7. User receipt records “Approved”; manager start receipt separately authorizes the bounded assessment. The approved assessment was completed after the manager's committed start handoff. Published v001, original input and pre-gate evidence remain preserved; history is in changes.²

Scope covers read-only investigation, completion planning, a proposed data contract and experiment design. New training/inference, source changes, downloads, paid APIs, deployment and detector integration are excluded. Overall DroneRadar project-boundary wording remains a recommendation for manager reconciliation.

Results and evidence

• Readiness assessment: recommendation, alternatives, evidence gaps and decisions.
• Completion milestones: existing tool gates, optional research branches and later detector/application validation.
• Proposed interface: propagation quantities and separate observation/calibration contract.⁴
• First experiment plan: a bounded reference-sensitivity audit before recalibration/training; not executed.⁵
• Data manifest: preserved originals, derived inventories and capture limitations.
• Main findings, worktree findings and curated session inventory.
• Shared research links: existing landscape and canonical evidence.

Findings that guide the next phase

The baseline application exists, while learned-model loading is absent from its inspected inference path. Learned rays have stage-one records but await map/speed validation; the raster tracer is a proposal. SpectrumNet has similar in-domain scores but a 38.4 percentage-point transfer coverage spread between seeds. Reference choice (IRT2 versus IRT4) materially changes near-range coverage, so calibration/evaluation credibility comes before more training.³

A path-gain or controller-link map does not establish passive detector coverage. Detector signal compatibility, antenna/receiver configuration, scan/dwell, interference, uptime and independently known target exposure require separate evidence. Probability remains unavailable until calibrated.⁴

Decisions and next action

The user approved this assessment scope. No implementation method, numeric acceptance threshold, experiment budget, detector-performance target or commercial decision has been approved. Proposed priority: reliable propagation maps and reproducible evaluation, followed by application-specific validation.²³

Assessment complete. Independent review found two medium issues, both corrected and rechecked. Coordinator checked 67 retained-data integrity entries and 50/50 archived source-file copies against their current origins; final knowledge validation passed. No source runtime or scientific performance was reproduced. Next action: manager checkpoints the stable assessment; manager/user can then consider a separately scoped reference-sensitivity experiment. Missing geography, operating heights/frequencies and partner data/sensitivity remain explicit inputs for later phases; they are not filled with invented defaults.

type: Idea
title: AI signal coverage for DroneRadar
description: Readiness assessment and proposed propagation completion path; detector
  validation remains a later gate.
status: draft
generated:
  by: codex/gpt-6.1-sol
  at: '2026-10-10T05:40:26.586488Z'
x_work_status: complete
x_stage: complete
sources:
- id: input
  resource: /docs/project-information/ideas/IDEA-002-ai-signal-coverage/raw-input.md
  title: Original idea request
- id: scope
  resource: /docs/project-information/ideas/IDEA-002-ai-signal-coverage/scope/v002.md
  title: User-approved scope v002
- id: assessment
  resource: /docs/project-information/ideas/IDEA-002-ai-signal-coverage/assessment.md
  title: Readiness assessment
- id: contract
  resource: /docs/project-information/ideas/IDEA-002-ai-signal-coverage/interface-contract.md
  title: Proposed interface
- id: experiment
  resource: /docs/project-information/ideas/IDEA-002-ai-signal-coverage/experiment-plan.md
  title: First experiment proposal