📖 Galati Gaspare

Full professor at Tor Vergata University

  Gaspare Galati, 100 Years of Radar, Springer, 2015 

📌This book offers fascinating insights into the key technical and scientific developments in the history of radar, from the first patent, taken out by Hülsmeyer in 1904, through to the present day. Landmark events are highlighted and fascinating insights provided into theexceptional people who made possible the progress in the field, including the scientists and technologists who worked independently and under strict secrecy in various countries across the world in the 1930s and the big businessmen who played an important role after World War II. The book encourages multiple levels of reading. The author is a leading radar researcher who is ideally placed to offer a technical/scientific perspective as well as a historical one. He has taken care to structure and write the book in such a way as to appeal to both non-specialists and experts. The book is not sponsored by any company or body, either formally or informally, and is therefore entirely unbiased. The text is enriched by approximately three hundred images, most of which are original and have been accessed by detailed searches in the archives.

📌 Gaspare GALATI received a Dr. Ing. Degree (Laurea) in Nuclear Engineering in 1970 and worked until February, 1986 for the company Selenia, where he was involved in radar systems analysis, radar design and air traffic control, and headed the Systems Analysis group. In March 1986 he joined Tor Vergata University, Rome as Associate Professor of Radar and, since November 1994, Full Professor of Radar and Navigation Systems, also teaching Signals and Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes. Designated Honorary Professor by the Minister for Research and Educations in 2017, teaches Radar Systems and Applications at Tor Vergata. He is member of CNIT (www.cnit.it) and first Editor of its Technical Reports series (14 issues from 2019 to 2024, https://www.cnit.it/altre-attivita/technical-reports/).

His main interests are in radar theory and techniques, weather radar, surface movements radar, SAR, noise radar, detection and estimation, navigation, and air traffic management. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 papers, 21 patents, 4 research books and 6 teaching books. His latest publications debunk some Quantum-related Hype.