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Conference DescriptionThe IEEE National Radar Conference, in conjunction with the International Radar Conference, has grown to be the most important radar conference in the world - bringing together innovators, leaders, and users from the civil, space, and military communities to address important issues and share the most recent advances in radar. Join us at the Hyatt Regency in Long Beach, California on April 22-25, 2002 and enjoy a lively and beautiful setting as we explore the impact of the digital age. The theme for this year's conference is Digital Technology - Enabling Radar Breakthroughs. Recent advances in digital technology have enabled us to implement new radar approaches that were just analytical curiosities a few years ago - for example, space-time adaptive processing (STAP), super-resolution algorithms, improved synthetic aperture radar (SAR) algorithms, and multiple hypothesis tracking. As a result, we've achieved dramatic performance improvements in clutter processing, target location accuracy, anti-jamming, and other areas. Moreover, high-speed digital processing acts as an enabler for digital beamforming, enhancing radar functionality and instantaneous coverage in bistatic applications. Other enablers include the development of low-cost T/R modules and phase shifters, improved low-noise amplifiers, and SIC transmitter modules. Along with these advances come new, substantially more difficult requirements: current and future systems demand much greater sensitivity, straining the limits of transmitter power, receive-antenna aperture, component capabilities, and subclutter visibility. Better resolution for SAR applications, improved detection and target ID methods, and smaller, less costly RF components and processors are also needed. The challenge is how to best apply digital technology and other advances, while identifying and developing new technologies for the future. This year's conference presents an array of formal, high-level technical sessions, augmented by ten four-hour tutorials by well-known experts. Tutorial topics include bistatic radar, SAR, STAP, and more (see schedule below). Radar industry exhibits are also featured. Keynote speaker is Major General Larry K. Arnold, commander of the 1st Air Force, Air Combat Command, and the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Come early for Monday's events, including an afternoon social gathering and Dr. Bob Trebits' kick-off tutorial, Basic Radar Concepts.
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