* **Context:**

For several reasons regarding the planet, such as its atmosphere density, landscape and its interference on electronic equipment, in this specific planet, people preferred to use land-ships to travel in its surface.

More specifically, the atmosphere is very dense, highly corrosive and interfere a lot with the electromagnetic stuff, the winds reach almost the speed of sound with sand-like crystal colliding and destroying everything that isn't a bunker-like structure, so you can't just take flight and send radio waves through the planet. Seismic vibrations are the most viable (if not the only) way to detect other land vessels.

For some other specific reasons, they decided to also use land-ships to attack and/or defend other civilian land-ships. And thus, the best way of detecting other land-ships is through a seismic radar (or "seidar"?) that detects the vibration these massive machines produces while moving.

Don't worry about physics and other stuff, it is just about the information displacement.

* **The problem:**

I couldn't find any kind of seismic radar that could allow for other land-ships detection, like a Sonar or a conventional Radar.

For reference, here is the Sonar screen of an unspecified ship, as you can see, the vision is in a 360 degrees around the vessel, allowing for a better localisation of stuff around it.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MyE15.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MyE15.png)

In the other hand, the Seismic Radars that exists in real life focus only in the **depth** and **structure** of the soil, not on the **direction** and **characteristics** of these vibrations (a land-ship of a certain size and structure would produce a specific wave of vibrations). After all, it is a **cientific tool for research**, not for **war**.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aNIC6.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aNIC6.jpg)

Anyway, the thing is that, what would be the best way of **showing** the vibrations on the soil? Exactly like a Sonar screen, or something totally different that already exists?

The other type of seismic radar that I could find was the "**Insar**" that is remotely made with satellites and aircraft. But it won't do, since these seismic vibrations of other land-ships need to be detected in site by the land-ship itself.