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Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is an efficient multi-carrier transmission technology, which is an important signal form of 5G communication. Researching passive locations for OFDM signals can realize the location of base stations, which is of great significance in the military. Space-borne passive location technology has a contradiction between wide coverage and high precision. Therefore, a single-satellite passive location algorithm for OFDM radiation sources based on the virtual synthetic aperture is proposed. The algorithm introduces virtual synthetic aperture technology, using antenna movement to accumulate data coherently over a long time period and synthesizing a long azimuth virtual aperture. In addition, it utilizes fast Fourier transform (FFT) to extract phase information at a specific frequency based on the multi-carrier modulation technology of the OFDM signal. Pilot technology of the communication system is used for phase compensation and noise reduction. Thus, the azimuth linear frequency modulation (LFM) signal containing the location information of the radiation source is obtained. The radiation source location can be obtained by range searching and azimuth focusing. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the algorithm and show that the algorithm can realize high-precision and wide-coverage location for the OFDM radiation sources using a single antenna, turning the hardware structure into software to reduce the cost and complexity of the system.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15061695","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,22]],"date-time":"2023-03-22T06:00:01Z","timestamp":1679464801000},"page":"1695","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Passive Location for 5G OFDM Radiation Sources Based on Virtual Synthetic Aperture"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Tong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5423-5070","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6570-1516","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qiang","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Huang, J.H., Barr, M.N., Garry, J.L., Smith, G.E., and IEEE (2017, January 8\u201312). 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