100 Years of Radar

By Gaspare Galati

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319345788
• ISBN13: 9783319345789
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"