One of the reasons why Stripey and I are good pals is because we appreciate beauty. Even though we have very different taste in our real life and anime ladies, we can often appreciate each other’s point of view. It is in this spirit that the Synthetic Ah-peh-ture Radar (SAR), as I like to call it, was developed. It is our take on Synthetic Aperture Radar, “a form of radar in which sophisticated post-processing of radar data is used to produce a very narrow effective beam.”
The above screen caps from episode 21 of School Rumble (aka “Sukuran“) is precisely the kind of situation that the SAR was developed to avoid. What Imadori (the blond guy) did was the classic direct radar contact, staring at (i.e. to BEO or Hokkien-derived slang for “look” ) whatever attracted his attention directly and most indiscretely, resulting in physical violence and hilarity.
SAR has a similar starting point from normal BEO radar. It relies on passive, edge of the horizon observation (aka “corner of the eye” ). For conventional BEO, after passive identification of a potential contact, the normal standard operating procedure is to zoom in directly on the contact for confirmation, re-confirmation (the second glance), appreciation and possibly sounding of the alert to fellow BEO operators. Often this direct approach will alert the contact which have powerful detection modules (more observant and the all-powerful female intuition as pictured above in the third screencap) and adverse reactions may arise - at best, contact moving out of range to an anti-radar strike on the BEO operator.
SAR relies on the sweeping glance where the contact is the starting point of the sweep. Several sweeps at varying intervals will then follow after which the collected data is agregated and put through pattern recognition. Of course, every BEOster has a different pattern recognition program (taste, preference) but we believe that some universal criteria for enhancing pattern recognition through the deployment of the BEO Jammer Canceller can be developed. And if an approach is considered, the BEO Stampeder may also be used. (Apologies to non-Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny fans.)
Thus it is fairly obvious that the fine art of BEOing chiobuz requires a complete suite of modules and concepts of which the SAR is only the begining.