Experience
NORRAD is led by Dr. Richard Norland. His technical career is the foundation of the company's expertise — spanning fundamental radar research, system engineering, RF and electromagnetic measurement, signal processing, field trials, qualification and operational radar systems.
Technical foundation
Education
Later Dr. philos. in geophysics from the University of Oslo — the scientific basis for radar propagation, scattering and precision measurement work.
Industry
Professional experience with large-scale geophysical measurement and data acquisition.
Radar industry
Radar system engineering in an industrial development environment.
≈11 years
Fundamental and applied radar research: multistatic and bistatic concepts, waveforms, propagation, clutter and radar survivability.
Teaching
Teaching radar and related subjects at graduate level.
2001–2019
Development of coherent Ku-band, polarimetric and electronically steered radar systems for maritime, environmental and surveillance applications — research through prototype, field trials, qualification and operational deployment.
From 2020
Specialist radar, RF and Radar Cross Section measurement services and independent technical advisory.
Systems developed before 2020 were built at earlier companies and institutions. They are presented here as evidence of experience now available within NORRAD, not as NORRAD products.
Application domains
Defence and civilian, research and operational — the same underlying radar physics, measurement discipline and system understanding applied across very different environments.
Radar propagation over sea, sea clutter, detection of small and low-RCS targets including periscopes, and detection of people in the sea during search-and-rescue trials.
Published work on multistatic radar addressing operation under countermeasures, anti-radiation threats, interference and emission detectability.
Electronically steered antennas, beam steering, polarimetric operation and Ku-band / millimetre-wave front ends developed and field-tested in real systems.
Radar interferometry and coherent phase measurement for very high precision displacement monitoring of unstable rock slopes, glaciers and geophysical processes, with atmospheric error compensation.
Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery, radar scattering analysis, target behaviour in SAR and participation in Norwegian space-industry activities — radar sensing and advisory, not spacecraft manufacturing.
Low-level surveillance, drone and drone-swarm detection concepts, short-range air defence sensing and fast electronic scanning, plus earlier airport surveillance, tracking and networked radar work.
Coherent, polarimetric radar for high-resolution sea-surface measurement and oil-spill detection offshore, including operation in low-wind conditions.
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