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Acknowledgements Quite a number of individual effortr were requLed to make thb small contribution to the engineering mmmunity pmsihle. I would &st Ue to thank the l od investment community who pmvided the funding to develop the Cape Race radar faeilityvia Northem Fads Systems Limited. Without this hacking, the wrk presented here would not he pmible. I wo?lld, semndly, like to thank the engineers who designed, bufit and managed the development of the radar system. These individusls indude Dr. Rafaat Khan who designed the radar waveform and the signal proesing chain. Bob Davis and Dr. Saoudy Saoudy who designed the antenna system, Fabian Hartery who paimtalungiy maintained it. Bdan Gamberg and Wayne Pearwn who wrote the system software, and Barry Dave for his patient management of the project. Dr. Jim Helhig of the Department of Fisheries and Ocem. who supervised the experiment and processed the drifter data, is gmtefully admmledged an weU an the captain and mew of the HMCS Skeem who deployed the buoys. I would also iike to t hd the system m anw of Memorial's central mmputing facilih: Randy Dodge, who gave me access M the VAXfVMS system for s ohe development purpaee4 This wa made increasingly difficult as this system, which contained all the pro-ing software used to generate the early results from thb thesis, was no bngez being supported by the university during the period in early 1995 when the VAX/VMS system wa~ being replaced by a UNM platform. Upon my departure fmm CCORe in late 1995, the data and software fmm the VAX system was transferred to the computing fadity at the engineering faculty. Therefore, I wuld Ue to thank Dave PCP, thesystem manager of the Faculty of En- gineering's mmputimg facility, for helping me with the transition from the VAX/VMS platform to a UNIX system. This was a slow pm- since the Qe and software for-
mats had to be modified for ace- by the new system. Upon my arrival at Raytheon Canada in 1996 the data Ues were reformatted again and forther sftm r aites were required. Therefore, I w dd Like to thank Randy H o d of Raytheon Canada for helpinp to trader all th- to a Raytheon's PC envimnment and rawriting the Fortran mde in MATLAB such that I could lkbh the data procersing requirements hr this thesis. Eric Gill, who has taken the time to proohad and make suggestions regarding the presentation of this document, is &o gratefully a d m ~ L It ~ was . a pleasure to work with him over the past several years in this 848 ~mce his enthusiastic approach to his research has provided me with much inspiration. I dsc me thanh to my partner and best friend. Roianda Ryao. Her ability to how when and how to mdre me laugh during difficult periock in this academic en- deawr is fondly appreciated. Her iwe and support were paramount to the completion of this work. Finally, I would like to thaoldully acknowledge my supervisor. Dr. John Welsh for his unmwMg support over Ihe past 10 -. In conjunction w~th Dr. Welsh. I would dsc like to thank the Faculty of Enaeering for giving me the opportunity to undertake this task and MLighten myself and the HF radar mmmunity in the topic I haw chosen ss a thesis Lr my master's degree.
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