
1. Ground defense radar
1.1 Ground defense radar mission
Ground defense radars are designed to detect aircraft of all kinds (planes, helicopters, missiles, drones, etc.) that may pose a threat.
Depending on the size of the area to be protected and the threat, the radars used have longer or shorter ranges and are integrated into different defense systems:
radars that protect a country, or at least a large part of a territory, are long-range radars, typically instrumented to cover ranges of 400 to 500 km. This is the domain of air defense;
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smaller areas are protected by radars integrated into ground-air defense systems. Depending on their range, a distinction is made between :
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Bibliography
General articles on speed cameras
Websites
• Radar educational website http://www.radartutorial.eu
Events
Radar '14, International Radar Conference 2014, Oct. 13-17, 2014, Lille, France.
Standards and norms
- Unwanted emissions in the spurious domain - CEPT/ERC/REC 74-01 -
- Unwanted emissions in the out of band domain - ITU-R SM 1541 -
- European directive on radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity (RTTE Directive) - 1999/5/EC -
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