I am committed to give a talk soon,to a highly professional audiance,
about the main innovations that happened in Radar Technology since the
2nd world war.  I need the information to be as specific as possible,
and to include both Military and Commercial types of Radars.

I am looking into progress made ONLY in the last 20 to 25 years. (I
have enough material on the former years)

I am interested with SYSTEM's ideas (e.g., new types of Antennas,
impact of digital computers), and their impact on today's capabilities
that were achieved due to smart ideas in signal processing (e.g.,
Kalman Filter), AND/OR new hardware (e.g., smart antennas, phased
arrays).  I am NOT interested with improvements that did not change
the way the radar works, at the SYSTEM level.

Summary
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1.  I need answers that will list the main innovations characterized
above, along with a short explanation on each, and its impact.

2.  I need pointers, preferably web sites, where I can get more
information.

3.  I need the answer by Monday, February, 24, 2003 5 pm.

Hi! Just a few notes.

1980s - Rasterscan
1990s - radar images or tracks with electronic charts

Sorry I forgot the links:

http://academic.amc.edu.au/~irodrigues/LECTURES/WEEK_1_1/tsld013.htm

http://academic.amc.edu.au/~irodrigues/LECTURES/WEEK_1_1/tsld014.htm

Thanks!

Hi easterangel,

Thanks for your quick response.  It wasn't exactly the kind of
response I am looking for.

I am looking for new IDEAS. Examples: Monopulse radar, Matched filter,
the concept of waveform design. In short: New elements in Radar theory
and/or implementation(s), that brought along an important change with
the way people design/analyze radar systems.

RasterScan can still be included if you think it does improve the
radar detection capability, by mechanizing the monitoring of thye
radar disply. Do you know whether detection is improved? in what
sense? Can this improvement be quantified?

thanks again,
systemguy

Hi systemsguy-ga!

I do not know much about this topic and I feel I found very little to
post as answer so I just listed it at the comment section so you
wouldn't get charged. Furthermore this might help other researchers
get started. I will leave this open so others might take a crack at
it.

Thanks.