Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Two Weather Radars...

Precipitation intencity

At this picture, captured from the Buienradar.nl real-time dynamic visualization, you can see the precipitating area above the Netherlands and North Sea (January 15, 2008). As soon as the cloud layer and precipitations have been quite homogenous, the symmetrical figures at this picture show, actually, the antenna patterns of two weather radars - in De Bilt (at the center of lower circuit) and in Den Helder (at the center of upper circuit).

Friday, January 11, 2008

Microwave Journal

Microwave Journal Online

Phased-array Radars: Past, Astounding Breakthroughs and Future Trends

Brookner, E., 2008: Phased-array Radars: Past, Astounding Breakthroughs and Future Trends, Microwave Journal, 51(1) - pp. 30

In-depth look at the advanced development and proliferation of phased-array radars over the last five decades...

On-line version

FGAN/FHR

FGAN/FHR (Forschungsgesellschaft für Angewandte Naturwissenschaften/ Forschungsinstitut für Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik - Defense Research Facility for Applied Science/Research, Institute for High-frequency Physics and Radar Techniques), Wachtberg near Bonn, Germany.

Official site

PAMIR (Phased Array Multifunctional Imaging Radar)

PAMIR is an airborne SAR/MTI (Synthetic Aperture Radar/Moving Target Indication) experimental instrument of FGAN/FHR. The multifunctional PAMIR instrument is of AER (Airborne Experimental Radar) and AER-II heritage, both of FGAN/FHR. more...