Radar
3D S-band frequency-scanning surveillance radar - microwave and
antenna engineering, flight trials and project management
High reliability solid state 10kW S-band radar transmitter - chief
engineer
60-way radial waveguide combiner - inventor , design and test
Microwave Remote Sensing Experiment (MRSE), X-band
scatterometer and radiometer instruments on board the Space
Shuttle - consultant for the antenna subsystem
European Remote Sensing satellite ERS-1, C-band oceanography
mission with imaging synthetic aperture radar (SAR), radar altimeter
and wind scatterometer - Radar Engineer (ESA staff member) in
Phases A and B1.
Frequency scanning scatterometer for oceanography (FRESCO)
TerraSAR-L, L-band SAR satellite mission to compliment TerraSARX
– project management
BIOMASS, a P-band SAR candidate Earth Explorer mission for
mapping of global biomass – mission/system engineering and
technical coordination of the Phase 0 Study
CoReH2O, candidate Earth Explorer mission for Snow and Ice
Observations - mission/system engineering and technical
coordination of the Phase 0 Study
Stepped-aperture antenna concept for low frequency SAR missions
–inventors
Novel planar transmission line coupling elements – inventors
Telecommunications
Re-entry Vehicle (ARD & IXV) Communication Technology Study –
Communication subsystem detailed design
EDRS-C (European Data Relay Satellite C) TT&R S-band and Kaband
space communication link – project management
Airborne 200W VHF/UHF communication transmitter – system
concept
Novel planar transmission line coupling elements – inventors
Science
Joint European Torus (JET), for design, manufacture, installation
and commissioning of a twenty-four channel vector generator
system for delivering 10 MW of microwave heating to the Torus
plasma – consultant for the system design and commissioning
COSY Synchrotron beam position monitor and spectrum analyser
–preliminary system design
Medicine
14kW RF generators in Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
camera isotope systems – EMC testing
300W S-band solid state amplifier for driving 7 MW in a
radiotherapy system – design and testing
Hyperthermia cancer therapy systems for the Medical Research
Council and Teaching Hospitals – design and development
Automotive
RF and optical-network systems for telematics facilities in vehicles –
analysis of customer requirements, definition, design, development
and performance verification
Simulation of multipath distortions and high-field-strength RF
environments
Mobile RF laboratory to demonstrate and verify diversity
performance
television, GSM mobile telephone and GPS navigation systems –
design and test
DSP-based multipath distortion analyser – project management
In-car multimedia facility, creating a new product opportunity
–inventor
Electric propulsion
Electric propulsion for space applications using microwave radiation
pressure - cavity and thrust balance design and testing.
Innovated by EURECO® for the space industry.