EMRS – problems, progress and hero devices

It's an unusual sight to see conference delegates queuing in sunlight outside the Scottish Edinburgh Conference Centre. But the joint Electromagnetic Remote Sensing and Systems Engineering for Autonomous Systems meeting caused just such a logjam in processing its first-day's attendance of 550 delegates. It was also an unusual conference being the first such joint airing of disparate, but defence related research developments. And not the smallest part of its charm was that rather than featuring ‘hero’ devices and development; both the problems and progress were aired.