Radar apparatus

US4724438A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Marconi Company Limited · GB

Inventors

• Christopher John Arnold · Vancouver, US
• Caspar P. A. van den Broek · Maldon, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 5, 1984
• Grant date: Feb 9, 1988
• Expiry date: Oct 5, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S13/42
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a radar system of the type which can be presented with a number of tasks to be performed. Some of these tasks, e.g. the surveillance of areas at close range, may only require the transmission of low energy pulses and thus the full potential of the r.f. energy source has not previously been used while such tasks are being handled. By arranging for the tasks to be performed in a suitable overlapping sequence the full capability of the energy source is used at all times thereby increasing the throughput of tasks.