It was used to find suitable locations for the radar antennas of the SFR system.
[citation needed] The core of the SFR system was the French ER-200 early warning and guidance radar from the Société Française Radioélectrique.
From 1955 to 1966, a school complex in Dübendorf (the Radar Doerfli ("Radar village") on the training site Dürrbach Rüti bei Riggisberg), one on the top of Bütschelegg (above Bern-Belp) and the plants on 4 height locations (mountain peaks) were formed for the first radar aerial surveillance system of Switzerland.
In these command centers put the data of the radarsites together to a national wide air surveillance picture.
From these command centers where also the own aircraft guided by tactical fighter controllers.