Civilian Radar Research and Development in China

This talk mainly contains three parts: radar technology development history in China, civilian radar technology research and progress in China, and the Chinese radar industry academic organization. The development of radar technology in China has experienced five steps: repairing, imitation, independent design, development improvement and new development and application. Before the 1960s, the work was mainly on the establishment of radar production base and imitation radar products, during which the prototype of the radar service had been developed in China and the whole process of radar trial productions had been mastered. From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, it had developed to the stage of independent design, and a large number of new technologies had been used to carry out radar independent research and development. After the mid-1970s, the development of China’s radar technology has come to the stage of development improvement. New radar technology has achieved big breakthroughs, with the main symbol of military and civilian integration and products into the international market. At present, the goal of China's radar development is to catch up and narrow the gap with the world leading radar technology.

The second part introduces the research and progress of China’s civilian radar technology, which is an inseparable part of the development of radar technology in China. The research is mainly done independently or jointly by research institutes, companies and universities. At present, China’s relatively mature civil radar mainly includes weather radar, air traffic radar, speed measuring radar, shipborne collision avoidance radar and spaceborne remote sensing radar. In addition, with the continuous improvement of national economy production and demanding of living needs, radar technology has also been widely applied in more and more civilian areas. Deformation monitoring radar, mini-SAR for UAV, small target detection radar, insect radar, automotive radar, wall penetrating radar and FOD detection radar has seen profound development and has been better serving the relevant areas of the national economy.

The third part introduces the relevant academic organizations and academic activities of radar technology in China, which mainly includes radar society, signal processing society, microwave society and antenna society of Chinese Institute of Electronics, and the China Radar Industry Association, and so on. The main academic conferences on radar technology held in China include IEEE CIE international radar conference, IET international radar conference, Asia-Pacific conference on synthetic aperture radar, and national academic radar conference, etc.