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The Right Tool For The Job
The figure below depicts a scenario where two targets are just about to penetrate the air space covered by a surveillance radar. The next sequence of snapshots illustrates the targets entering,...
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Big Design, But Not All Upfront
When not ranting and raving on this blawg about “great injustices” (LOL) that I perceive are keeping the world from becoming a better place, I design, write, and test real-time radar system software...
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Someone Broke My Radar!
D’oh! Someone broke my freakin’ radar! When I went to bed last night and glanced out my window, it was happily spinning away in my backyard diligently searching for airborne intruders. When I woke up,...
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Stuck And Bother
I’m currently working on a project with a real, hard deadline. My team has to demonstrate a working, multi-million dollar radar in the near future to a potential deep-pocketed customer. As you can see...
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A Blast From The Past
One of the first from-scratch products I ever worked on was named “BEXR” (Beacon Extractor & Recorder, pronounced “Beck’s-uhr“). I proposed the name BEVR (Beacon Evaluation & Video Recorder,...
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Abstracting Away Some Details
The following figure shows the general system architecture of a rotating, ground-based, radar whose mission is to detect and track “air breathing” targets. The chain of specially designed hardware and...
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