• The Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) satellite is the United States Department of Defense's next-generation operational environmental satellite...
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  • cancelled the program. It was replaced with the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M). DWSS was a follow-on for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program...
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    on 11 April 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2024. "Space Systems Command awards $78 million to Ball Aerospace for second Weather System Follow-on-Microwave Satellite"...
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    The microwave landing system (MLS) is an all-weather, precision radio guidance system intended to be installed at large airports to assist aircraft in...
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    Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than other radio waves (as originally discovered) but longer than infrared waves...
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  • Control System is a system at airports having a surveillance infrastructure consisting of a Non-Cooperative Surveillance (e.g. SMR, Microwave Sensors...
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    a microwave relay network. It is possible to use microwave signals in over-the-horizon communications using tropospheric scatter, but such systems are...
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    Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    first of the new defense weather satellites, the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) satellite. In 2004 the USAF weather satellite DMSP Block 5D-2...
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  • States which held the call sign WSFM from 1965 until the 1980s Weather System Follow-on Microwave, an environmental satellite program Web Services Formal Methods...
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    radar systems, and, with support from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Radiation Laboratory (recently formed to investigate microwave radar)...
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    "Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer fact Sheet". 403rd Wing AFRC. Retrieved 12 December 2012. Not including series, aircraft in Robertson, Factsheet 53 Weather Reconnaissance...
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    landing systems have been developed, including the radar-based ground-controlled approach (GCA) and the more recent microwave landing system (MLS), but...
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  • certification for point-to-point microwave ("fixed wireless") for enterprise and government resilience to extreme weather, grid outages and terror attacks...
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    Satellite Program (DMSP) constellation of satellites until the Weather System Follow-on satellites are operational. An independent review team (IRT) was...
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    Ball lightning (category Anomalous weather)
    with the GMR (Graphite Microwave Resonator) by Jean-Louis Naudin". Jlnlabs.online.fr. 22 December 2005. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved...
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    one. So seasonal change seems to happen as follows: poles, which are bright both in visible and microwave spectral bands, come into the view at solstices...
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    (born May 13, 1950) is a Nigerian-American scientist specializing in microwave remote sensing. He worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California...
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    instrument landing system, microwave landing system, Doppler weather radar, LORAN receivers, GEE, TACAN, inertial navigation system, GPS, and GNSS in aircraft...
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    power systems convert sunlight to some other form of energy (such as microwaves) which can be transmitted through the atmosphere to receivers on the Earth's...
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    visible on microwave satellite imagery. The center of Prapiroon made landfall near Wanning, Hainan, with 1-minute sustained winds of 95 km/h (60 mph) on July...
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    spectrum. Rotational transitions are responsible for absorption in the microwave and far-infrared, vibrational transitions in the mid-infrared and near-infrared...
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    measurements made by weather balloons. Thick clouds act like a wall to the infrared energy measured by AIRS. However, microwave instruments on board Aqua can...
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    powerful microwave transmitters and Bell's sensitive receivers, they built several experimental systems to test a variety of frequencies and weather effects...
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    Ka-band space-based radar for weather observation and forecasting. Weather radars send directional pulses of microwave radiation, on the order of one microsecond...
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    effects on weather are monitored daily from satellite images. The Antarctic ozone hole is mapped from weather satellite data. Collectively, weather satellites...
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    Radar (redirect from Microwave radar)
    vehicles, map weather formations, and terrain. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwaves domain, a...
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  • or microwaves to determine the normalized radar cross section (σ0, "sigma zero" or "sigma naught") of a surface. They are often mounted on weather satellites...
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    Pulse-Doppler radar (category Microwave technology)
    for multi-mode radar systems. Choppy surfaces, like waves and trees, form a diffraction grating suitable for bending microwave signals. Pulse-Doppler...
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    outflow. At 12:00 UTC, the MFR categorized the system as a tropical depression. Additionally, microwave imagery indicated an eye in the lower-layer while...
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    The local-area augmentation system (LAAS) is an all-weather aircraft landing system based on real-time differential correction of the GPS signal. Local...
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