Wave radar is a type of radar for measuring wind waves. Several instruments based on a variety of different concepts and techniques are available, and...
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the backscatterer Continuous-wave radar (CW radar) is a type of radar system where a known stable frequency continuous wave radio energy is transmitted...
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Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects...
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an active radar transceiver). Semi-active missile systems use bistatic continuous-wave radar. The NATO brevity code for a semi-active radar homing missile...
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ground-based radars are once again being considered for roles such as maritime reconnaissance and drug enforcement. The frequency of radio waves used by most...
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Millimeter-wave cloud radars, also denominated cloud radars, are radar systems designed to monitor clouds with operating frequencies between 24 and 110 GHz...
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ways of producing the Doppler effect. Radars may be: Coherent pulsed (CP), Pulse-Doppler radar, Continuous wave (CW), or Frequency modulation (FM). Doppler...
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Super high frequency (redirect from Centimetre wave radar)
point-to-point communication and data links and for radar. This frequency range is used for most radar transmitters, wireless LANs, satellite communication...
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A continuous wave or continuous waveform (CW) is an electromagnetic wave of constant amplitude and frequency, typically a sine wave, that for mathematical...
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radars and continuous-wave radars, which were formerly separate due to the complexity of the electronics. The first operational pulse-Doppler radar was...
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Podsolnukh-E over-the-horizon (OTH) surface-wave radar and the 29B6 Konteyner. The latter, while also being an OTH-radar, has separate locations for the transmitter...
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radio waves when they come back is different from the transmitted waves. When the object is approaching the radar, the frequency of the return waves is higher...
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continuous-wave radar to locate buried objects was submitted by Gotthelf Leimbach and Heinrich Löwy in 1910, six years after the first patent for radar itself...
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Extremely high frequency (redirect from Millimeter wave)
further increasing frequency reuse potential. Millimeter waves are used for military fire-control radar, airport security scanners, short range wireless networks...
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target illuminator or illuminator radar. A typical fire-control radar emits a narrow, intense beam of radio waves to ensure accurate tracking information...
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(like a trained mariner) or by using instruments like weather buoys, wave radar or remote sensing satellites. In the case of buoy measurements, the statistics...
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Mmwave sensing (category Radar by band)
Millimeter wave (mmWave) sensing is a non-contact system of using mmWave radar sensors to measure movement, acceleration, and angles as small as a fraction...
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stationary antenna. A synthetic-aperture radar is an imaging radar mounted on a moving platform. Electromagnetic waves are transmitted sequentially, the echoes...
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Hellfire, is a fire-and-forget weapon: equipped with millimeter-wave (MMW) active radar homing, it requires no further guidance after launch—even being...
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Radar cross-section (RCS), denoted σ, also called radar signature, is a measure of how detectable an object is by radar. A larger RCS indicates that an...
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Ku band is common as well. The past success of radar detectors was based on the fact that radio-wave beams can not be narrow-enough, so the detector...
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these bands in order to reduce radar clutter. If the radar wavelength is roughly twice the size of the target, a half-wave resonance effect can still generate...
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Microwave (redirect from Micro-wave)
(EHF) (millimeter wave; 30 to 300 GHz) bands as well. Frequencies in the microwave range are often referred to by their IEEE radar band designations:...
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Enhanced flight vision system (section Imaging radar)
active and passive millimeter wave radar. In 2009, DARPA provided funding to develop "Sandblaster", a millimeter wave radar based enhanced vision system...
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section upgrade. Lockheed Martin offered its dual-mode laser and millimeter wave radar seeker, and Raytheon may submit its tri-mode seeker which adds imaging...
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capable of day/night operations. Type 99A is fitted with ST-16 millimeter wave radar suite, designed for target identification (IFF), acquisition and track...
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Radiation-absorbent material (redirect from Radar Absorbant Material)
absorb and disperse radar waves. The results were promising against 3000 megacycle frequencies, but poor against 3 cm wave length radar. Work on the program...
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there are alternative guidance packages available including a millimetre-wave radar (MMW) seeker and a two-colour imaging infrared (IIR) seeker. All variants...
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