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100 Years of Radar
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ISBN10: 3319345788
ISBN13: 9783319345789
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 399
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783319345789
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 399
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Foreword.- List of the main abbreviations, definitions, symbols.- Preface by Benito Palumbo.- The unfortunate inventor and the lucky one - the Ur-radar, primordial apparatus.- The owls and the Owl - birth of the Italian radar.- A simultaneous invention - the first developments.- The air defense and the alleged father of radar.- The Second World War and its legacies.- The radar flies: birth and development of airborne radar systems.- The Italian situation in post-war period: SMA, Microlambda, Sindel, Selenia, Contraves, GEM, IDS.- From terrestrial to space-based radar: the adventure of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).- Scops owls and bats - some considerations on the development of radar.- System Integration: final solution for the radar?.- Afterword by Giuseppe Pelosi.- References.- Index of Names.- Appendixes.
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