TA-10 RADAR UPGRADE

The scope of the project was to upgrade the extractor and timing unit of a Thomson TA-10 ASR. The Primary Radar Extractor or PRE790 is developed to extend the life span of airport approach primary radar systems and improve their performance. The main step in the radar upgrade was the replacement of the full receiver processing unit, resulting in an immediate improvement by use of state of the art radar processing techniques. Moreover, all required software in order to control the PRE790 is programmed on COTS equipment, together with a modern radar display (Multi Radar Display from the RASS-R software) for the radar site technicians. After installation, all radars were tuned again by using the RASS-S toolbox. This setup is currently installed at 3 Belgian military airfields: Beauvechain (Q1 2007), Florennes (Q2 2007) and Kleine Brogel (Q1 2008).



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