Radar

Radar developments at Waalsdorp started in the mid-’30s.
Since then, TNO has always been at the world’s forefront of research into military and civil radars and radar applications:

• The electric listening device (1936 – 1941)
• Post-WWII radar developments (1946 – 1965)
• Manufacturing of experimental magnetrons (1953 – 1955)
• Grinding of small ferrite bars (1954)
• The invisibility of submarines for radar (stealth) (1958 – 1990)
• Radar transponders and VESTA (1959 – 1995)
• Radar-video extractor for detection of ships  – ARIS (1965 – 1979)
   
• Research and development of phased-array radars (CAISSA, FUCAS, APAR) (1963 – )
• Micro Electronic Computer for radar control (1970)
• PHARS and PHARUS: phased array SAR (1990 – 1999)
   
• Bird detection with radar: KIEVIT and Radar Observation of Bird Intensity (ROBIN) (1970 – 2010)
• Radiometer and Body scanner (1982 – 2009)
• New radar applications with signal processing (SHIRA) (1984 – 2005)
• TWT simulator (1988)
• Demonstration of Advanced Radar Techniques (DART) project (1988 – 1990)
• Target Simulation (TARSIM) (1991)

 
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