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    Conical scanning is a system used in early radar units to improve their accuracy, as well as making it easier to steer the antenna properly to point at...
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  • cone-shaped area. The traditional solution to this problem is to use conical scanning. In this system, the receiver is connected not to a single receiver...
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  • from a single signal pulse. Monopulse radar avoids problems seen in conical scanning radar systems, which can be confused by rapid changes in signal strength...
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    Infrared homing (redirect from Rosette scan)
    practical designs did not become possible until the introduction of conical scanning and miniaturized vacuum tubes during the war. Anti-aircraft IR systems...
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    versions over the next year to improve accuracy, notably the addition of conical scanning in the D model of 1941. The larger Würzburg-Riese (giant) was based...
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  • deception jamming is an electronic warfare technique used against conical scanning radar systems. It generates a false signal that fools the radar into...
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  • switching, or more commonly by the second half of the war, conical scanning. Conical scanning works by splitting the single radar beam in two, and comparing...
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    Lidar (redirect from 3D laser scanning)
    direction (e.g., vertical) or it may scan multiple directions, in a special combination of 3-D scanning and laser scanning. Lidar has terrestrial, airborne...
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    Swedish Flygvapnet Saab Viggens. Skyflash replaced the original Raytheon conical scanning seeker with a Marconi inverse monopulse seeker that worked with the...
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    resonance using a small screw. The system is almost always found in conical scanning systems. It has the advantage of being very robust mechanically, with...
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    Radar (redirect from Palmer Scan)
    Secondary Scan: A scanning technique where the antenna feed is moved to produce a scanning beam, examples include conical scan, unidirectional sector scan, lobe...
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    with missile guidance in all configurations. Older systems rely on conical scanning rather than monopulse. In accordance with the Joint Electronics Type...
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  • signal that was illuminating the target. As the radar typically used conical scanning in order to keep itself pointed at the target (radar lock-on), and...
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    pre-launch instructions. The conical scanning speed was also increased greatly. The seeker head was now able to seek in a 25˚ circular scan. This allowed the AIM-9G...
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  • the fuel tank exploded and destroyed the vehicle. Tracking used a conical scanning technique, which employed the beam of the boresighted high-energy laser...
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    and measure both azimuth and elevation with one antenna, it used a conical scanning system, in which the beam is rotated around the antenna's axis to find...
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  • cone-shaped signal it sees. Normally this is accomplished using a form of conical scanning which uses the timing of variations in the signal to determine the...
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    the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer in 1978 became an important milestone in the history of radiometry. It was the first time a conically scanning...
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    military applications including mine detection. Side-scan uses a sonar device that emits conical or fan-shaped pulses down toward the seafloor across...
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    systems based on the conical scanning method did not supply the performance needed for a high-speed missile. In particular, conical scanning radars required...
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    must remain in a vertical configuration. Squint is also required in conical scanning. Ishii, T (1995). Handbook of microwave technology. San Diego: Academic...
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  • concept was used only briefly, and was almost completely replaced by conical scanning systems by the end of World War II. The concept is also infrequently...
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  • reactive energy is taken into account through the susceptance. Scanning arrays achieve scanning in two dimensions by creating a one-dimensional phased array...
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    system known as "Autoflite." Early radars installed in aircraft used conical scanning systems with beamwidths on the order of four degrees. When the beam...
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    the system was paired with a new parabolic dish which allowed for conical scanning. The result was a small, lightweight, powerful, long range and easy...
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    have a beam width of perhaps 5 degrees. Using a technique known as conical scanning, a rotating version of lobe switching, this could be further reduced...
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    the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron microscope) and various types of scanning probe microscopes. Although objects resembling...
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  • Mark II, replaced the mechanical scanning antennas with a waveguide "squeeze box" that performed the same scanning without the antennas moving. Mark...
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    the Soviet Strela-3 in 1975. They use gas-cooled seeker heads and a conical scanning technique, which enables the seeker to filter out most interfering...
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    rotating image is projected on a stationary reticle (a mode called "conical scan") or stationary set of detectors which generates a pulsed signal which...
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