User:PEHowland

About Me
British citizen. MEng (1991) and PhD degrees (1997) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University of Birmingham, UK. Professional career focussed on radar systems, Passive radar, multilateration systems and more generally in air defence, formerly for the UK MOD and latterly for NATO. Other professional interests include signal processing, tracking and estimation and more recently tactical datalinks and the exchange of real-time tactical data in networked environment. Program regularly in Java and Mathematica - previously have also used Fortran, IDL, PVWave and Matlab. Hobbies include playing the violin, English concertina and Border Morris dancing. Grew up in Ullingswick. Currently living in Wassenaar, The Netherlands.

For more details, see my resume/CV online here.

Hopefully this will give you some clue as to whether I am qualified to write the entries I do - for instance, if you see a piece on Latin grammar by me, please disregard.

My Articles
Articles I started include the following:
 * ACCS
 * Alliance Ground Surveillance
 * Airborne Ground Surveillance
 * Amplitude monopulse
 * Border Morris
 * BORAP
 * Bistatic angle
 * Bistatic range
 * Bistatic Doppler shift
 * Constant false alarm rate detection
 * Calusari
 * Elmar Oliveira - contemporary US violinist
 * Kopáč
 * Michael Koeberling - luthier in Murnau, Germany
 * Multilateration
 * NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency
 * NACMA
 * NACISA
 * Phase-interferometry
 * Ramona
 * SHAPE Technical Centre
 * Tamara
 * Ullingswick
 * VERA
 * Vasile Gliga - Romanian luthier

Articles I contributed significantly to include:
 * Computational electromagnetics
 * Kolchuga passive sensor
 * Passive radar (including a complete re-write on 1 October 2006)
 * Radar tracker