motion of the radar antenna over a target region to provide finer spatial resolution than conventional stationary beam-scanning radars. SAR is typically...
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sub-meter resolution. The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for "radio detection and ranging". The term radar has since...
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NEXRAD (redirect from KRAX RADAR)
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS)...
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fire-control radar is determined primarily by two factors: radar resolution and atmospheric conditions. Radar resolution is the ability of the radar to differentiate...
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velocity resolution. Radar sensors are classified by application, architecture, radar mode, platform, and propagation window. Applications of radar include...
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Imaging radar is an application of radar which is used to create two-dimensional images, typically of landscapes. Imaging radar provides its light to...
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low average power, high resolution, and object-penetrating ability. While investigating the feasibility of whether UWB radar technology can incorporate...
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Missile Defense (NMD) X-Band Radar (XBR) and AN/FPS-129 HAVE STARE. The use of X band provides better target resolution than lower frequency bands, for...
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planet (Venera 13 on 30 October 1981), and the first to perform high-resolution radar mapping scans (Venera 15 on 2 June 1983). The first Soviet attempt...
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Synthetic aperture radar refers to a method for improving the azimuth resolution (not range resolution). Radar imaging "Side-Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) Mosaics...
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that they pointed out "could provide the basis for radar systems with greatly improved angular resolution" and might even lead to systems capable of focusing...
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which increases the signal at the cost of lowering range resolution. The canonical EW radar is the British Chain Home system, which entered full-time...
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AN/APY-10 (redirect from Littoral Surveillance Radar System)
provide high resolution radar images in both overland and water modes. Available modes include color weather, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inverse...
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based active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar under development by the Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), a laboratory of...
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Ultra-wideband (section Radar)
attention for its implementation in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology. Due to its high resolution capacities using lower frequencies, UWB SAR was heavily...
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A pulse-Doppler radar is a radar system that determines the range to a target using pulse-timing techniques, and uses the Doppler effect of the returned...
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better spatial resolution, Doppler resolution, and dynamic range. MIMO radar may also be used to obtain low-probability-of-intercept radar properties. In...
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the way for a technologically viable prototype of a quantum radar involves the resolution of a number of experimental challenges as discussed in some...
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Shilong (2017-10-23). "Photonics-based real-time ultra-high-range-resolution radar with broadband signal generation and processing". Scientific Reports...
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the secondary radar which receives additional information from the target's transponder. This type of radar uses low vertical resolution antenna but good...
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Magellan (spacecraft) (redirect from Venus Radar Mapper)
objectives of the mission included: Obtain near-global radar images of the Venusian surface with a resolution equivalent to optical imaging of 1.0 kilometre (0...
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Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its...
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by the European Space Agency (ESA) that is planned to perform high-resolution radar mapping and atmospheric studies. EnVision is designed to help scientists...
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material, causing the highlands to appear brighter than lowlands. High-resolution radar observations by the Magellan probe by 1995 began to favor the hypothesis...
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Space-based radar or spaceborne radar is a radar operating in outer space; orbiting radar is a radar in orbit and Earth orbiting radar is a radar in geocentric...
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A multistatic radar system contains multiple spatially diverse monostatic radar or bistatic radar components with a shared area of coverage. An important...
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high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth prior to the release of the ASTER GDEM in 2009. SRTM consisted of a specially modified radar system...
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and telescopes, spatial resolution is directly connected to angular resolution, other instruments, like synthetic aperture radar or a network of weather...
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system using radar pulses rather than a continuous wave was filed in 1926 by Dr. Hülsenbeck (DE 489 434), leading to improved depth resolution. A glacier's...
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and high-resolution precipitation data. The primary advantage of TDWRs over previous weather radars is that it has a finer range resolution—meaning it...
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