3. “Recent Advances in STAP (Space Time Adaptive Processing)”
by Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Airforce Research Laboratory, SNHE / USA (Half Day).

Over 200 registered for Dr. Brookner’s tutorial; see Fig. 2 and 3.

On the morning of Tuesday there was an opening session of awards. Among those who received awards was our old friend Dr. R. P. Shenoy who is a retired Director of the Government Electronics & Radar Development Establishment (LRDE); see Fig. 4 and 5. Dr.R.P. Shenoy, while he was the Director of LRDE, organized the First IRSI in his capacity as Chairman of IETE(Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers ) Bangalore Centre. Dr. RP Shenoy retired from DRDO as Distinguished Scientist. It is nice to see that now in his retirement he is chairman of a key Indian electronics firm, Astra Microelectronics Technologies Ltd. (ASTRA), producing T/R modules from UHF to X-band as well as other microwave components for radars. This represents the new India.

The opening ceremonies were followed by three excellent invited plenary talks.

1. “Radar Development - Indian Scenario”
by Sri. S. Varadarajan, Director, LRDE.

2. “Active Phased Arrays & Digital Beamforming - Amazing Breakthroughs, Future Trends”
by Dr. Eli Brookner, Raytheon Corporation, USA.

3. “Ultra Wide Band Noise Radars”
by Prof. Ram M. Narayanan, Pennsylvania State University, USA

There were four additional superb invited plenary talks spread out as the starting talks for other sessions of the symposium. These were:

4. “Multisensor Data Fusion”
by Dr. Pramod K. Varshney, Syracuse University, USA.

5. “Advances in STAP”
by Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Air force Research Laboratory, SNEH, USA.

6. "From Array Antennas To Arrays of Antenna"
by Philippe Lacomme, THALES Airborne Systems, Aerospace Division, France.

7. "Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Radar Network System: First Results from the Weather Radar Network"
by V.Chandrasekar, Professor Colorado State University.

There was an additional invited talk worth noting: “Phased Array Radars -- Trends and Technology” by Israel Lupa, Director (Naval Systems) ELTA, Israel. See Figs. 6 to 10.

There were many exhibitors at the conference including LRDE who proudly showed their ground and airborne maritime radars; see Figs. 11 to 15. In the past visits in 1979, 1983 and 1993, Indian designs and productions of their own radars was not to be seen. It was very impressive to in 2007 the large number of Indian designed radars in production as shown in Figs. 11 to 14.

The food served for lunch and at the banquet was excellent. The grand banquet was held Wednesday evening and as usual India put on a magnificent show; see Figs. 16 and 17. At the banquet dinner after the show Dr. Brookner and Dr. Anna Poenoznick of Poland put on an impromptu ballroom dance performance to the delight of all; see Figs. 18 to 21.

Also impressive to see was Bangalores Silicon Valley; see Fig. 22. Impressive as well were the many new large apartment complexes; see Fig. 23. Also being built are new super highways to Bangalore and a subway system in Bangalore.

Still to be seen fortunately are the wandering bulls, camels, other fascinating scenes in and around Bangalore including village life near by and a safari; see Figs 24 to 39.

Dr. Brookner would like to thank D. Rajagopal, Secretary for IRSI-2007, for seeing that everything went smoothly. We are very much looking forward to the next Indian Radar Symposium.