Conceptually, radar is pretty simple: send out a radio wave and time how long it takes to get back via an echo. However, in practice, there are a number of trade-offs to consider. For example, ...
New-age solid-state marine radar ­systems from brands such as Furuno, Garmin, ­Raymarine and Simrad all transmit a ­relatively long, compressed pulse over a wide range of frequencies. By processing ...
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Ask A Met: How Does Radar Work?

If there are multiple things out there, say more raindrops, more beams will bounce back. What radar can do is measure the ...
October 3, 2013. Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced a pulse measurement option for its FieldFox handheld analyzers that is designed to further simplify radar field testing. Radar is the most ...
Collision detection for cars? Yeah, scientists are on that. But whenever we read about concepts like this, the accompanying literature is often curiously light on details pertaining to real-life ...
For the coexistence challenge of co-located pulsed radar and communication systems operating over overlapping bandwidths, it was observed that the interference caused by the pulsed radar on the ...
Researchers have adapted dolphin sonar—used with “bubble nets” to herd fish—to a new radar concept that eliminates clutter while searching for concealed explosives or surveillance equipment on land.