Author_Institution :
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., New York, N. Y.
Abstract :
IN the comparatively brief history of its development, the radar art has passed quickly through the general practitioner stage into the stage of many specialists. Today there are a dozen or more highly developed fields of specialization, all essential to the development of a new radar system. Each of these fields has its own basic science foundations and its engineering technology, and as soon as security conditions permit, each will have its own literature. To tie these several fields together calls for systems engineering and planning. The over-all characteristics and performance of a radar system are dependent both on the excellence of the component parts and the nicety with which they are fitted together to perform the desired function. It is the purpose of the present paper to discuss some of these systems engineering considerations, with examples of practical solutions that have been found, leaving to the specialists in the several fields the more detailed and exact exposition of their respective arts.
