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Acknowledgements<br />
Quite a num<strong>be</strong>r <strong>of</strong> individual effortr were requLed to make thb small contribution<br />
to the engineering mmmunity pmsihle.<br />
I would &st Ue to thank the l od investment community who pmvided the<br />
funding to develop the Cape Race radar faeilityvia Northem Fads Systems Limited.<br />
Without this hacking, the wrk presented here would not he pmible.<br />
I wo?lld, semndly, like to thank the engineers who designed, bufit and managed<br />
the development <strong>of</strong> the radar system. These individusls indude Dr. Rafaat Khan<br />
who designed the radar waveform and the signal proesing chain. Bob Davis and Dr.<br />
Saoudy Saoudy who designed the antenna system, Fabian Hartery who paimtalungiy<br />
maintained it. Bdan Gam<strong>be</strong>rg and Wayne Pearwn who wrote the system s<strong>of</strong>tware,<br />
and Barry Dave for his patient management <strong>of</strong> the project.<br />
Dr. Jim Helhig <strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Fisheries and Ocem. who supervised the<br />
experiment and processed the drifter data, is gmtefully admmledged an weU an the<br />
captain and mew <strong>of</strong> the HMCS Skeem who deployed the buoys.<br />
I would also iike to t hd the system m anw <strong>of</strong> <strong>Memorial</strong>'s central mmputing<br />
facilih: Randy Dodge, who gave me access M the VAXfVMS system for s ohe<br />
development purpaee4 This wa made increasingly difficult as this system, which<br />
contained all the pro-ing s<strong>of</strong>tware used to generate the early results from thb<br />
thesis, was no bngez <strong>be</strong>ing supported by the university during the period in early<br />
1995 when the VAX/VMS system wa~ <strong>be</strong>ing replaced by a UNM platform.<br />
Upon my departure fmm CCORe in late 1995, the data and s<strong>of</strong>tware fmm the<br />
VAX system was transferred to the computing fadity at the engineering faculty.<br />
Therefore, I wuld Ue to thank Dave PCP, thesystem manager <strong>of</strong> the Faculty <strong>of</strong> En-<br />
gineering's mmputimg facility, for helping me with the transition from the VAX/VMS<br />
platform to a UNIX system. This was a slow pm- since the Qe and s<strong>of</strong>tware for-