RADAR SYSTEMS

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RADAR SYSTEMS

• By
• Daryl McCormick

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OVERVIEW

• What is Radar?
• How does it work?
• Capabilities
• Users

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What is Radar?

• Radar stands for Radio Detection and Ranging,
  therefore a Radar is a system of components that
  use electromagnetic waves to detect objects and
  calculate their size, shape, and location.
• Depending on configuration and user needs Radar
  can also reveal even more information

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How Does it Work?

• Radar uses a series of components that work
  together
• 5 Main components
• Synchronizer
• Transmitter-Modulator
• Antenna System
• Receiver
• Display System

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Capabilities

• Radar systems capabilities depend on their
  respective component's abilities to produce a
  pulse of electromagnetic waves
• These waves are transmitted by the system to the
  target or area or object of interest and
  reflected back to the system
• The system then uses information gathered by the
  characteristics of the wave to compute
  information about the object

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CAPABILITIES CONT

• Radar can penetrate into deep space
• Near Earth object tracking
• Underground/Underwater mapping
• Mapping of other terrestrial bodies

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USERS

• Radar is used by a wide variety of users
• Military
• Law Enforcement
• NASA
• Naval/Navigation
• Commercial/Private Air Craft (Navigation) and
  collision avoidance

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CONCLUSION

• What is Radar?
• How does it work?
• Capabilities
• Users

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QUESTIONS?
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SOURCES

• Air Force Publication V3OQR13S1 000-II-3
• Capt Sean M. Hackbarth, USAF