CHAPTER 1 — BASIC RADAR PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL …

1 CHAPTER 1 BASIC RADAR PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICSINTRODUCTIONThe word RADAR is an acronym derived from the phraseRAdioDetectionAndRanging and applies to electronic equipment designed for detecting andtracking objects (targets) at considerable distances. The BASIC principlebehind RADAR is simple - extremely short bursts of radio energy (traveling atthe speed of light) are transmitted, reflected off a target and then returned asan makes use of a phenomenon we have all observed, that of theECHO PRINCIPLE. To illustrate this principle, if a ship s whistle weresounded in the middle of the ocean, the sound waves would dissipate theirenergy as they traveled outward and at some point would disappear , however the whistle sounded near an object such as a cliff some of theradiated sound waves would be reflected back to the ship as an form of electromagnetic sig

A BRIEF HISTORY Radar, the device which is used for detection and ranging of contacts, ... The basic idea of radar can be traced back to the classical experiments on electromagnetic radiation conducted by the scientific community in the 19th century. In the early 1800s, an English physicist, Michael Faraday, ... these radars when the electric ...

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