Why is RADAR PC and its associated products new technology?
Low cost Doppler Illuminators have been available since the mid 1970s. The reason why these devices have not found their way into low cost consumer products other than automatic door openers is that velocity processing requires significant computerized signal processing. Low cost Personal Computers of the past just did not have the speed and high resolution interfaces of current Personal Computers. Using sophisticated Super-Computer Algorithms, RADAR PC allows a low cost, off-the-shelf PC to do many things with RADAR that only high cost Military and Government systems exhibit. RADAR PC uses the power of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to digitally amplify the effective range of the Doppler Illuminator. This new feature (velocity amplification by signal processing) has greatly increased the value of low cost Doppler Illuminators. If the Illuminator is placed in a suitable reflector, this range may be multiplied many times at the sacrifice of horizontal coverage.
