RADAR101 - Radar Displays

This is the second course in our series on radar.This is a fairly short course on the topic of radar displays. Presented in this course are several historical and current radar display types, as well as topics involving radar displays such as overlays and the use of color.

• Introduction
• The Numeric Display
• Raw vs Synthetic Video
• The PPI
• The Sector PPI
• Historical Radar Displays
  • The A-Scope
  • The B-Scope
  • The C-Scope
  • The E-Scope
  • The H-Scope
• The Use of Color
• Overlays
• Summary

There is very little technical content in this course, it is mostly a survey course. It requires only a basic familiarity with radar. The intent here is simply to inform on some of the issues associated with radar displays.

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