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  2. Side looking airborne radar - Wikipedia

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    The radar "looks" with the looking angle θ (or so called off-nadir angle). The angle α between x-axis and the line of sight (LOS) is called cone angle, the angle φ between the x-axis and the projection of the line of sight to the (x; y)-plane is called azimuth angle. Cone- and azimuth angle are related by cosα = cosφ ∙ cosε.

  3. Radar engineering - Wikipedia

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    Pulse-Doppler radar sensors are therefore more suited for long-range detection, while FMCW radar sensors are more suited for short-range detection. Monopulse : A monopulse feed network, as shown in Fig. 2, increases the angular accuracy to a fraction of the beamwidth by comparing echoes, which originate from a single radiated pulse and which ...

  4. Pencil (optics) - Wikipedia

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    A pencil-beam radar A moving or sweeping pencil-beam radar. In optics, a pencil or pencil of rays, also known as a pencil beam or narrow beam, is a geometric construct (pencil of half-lines) used to describe a beam or portion of a beam of electromagnetic radiation or charged particles, typically in the form of a cone or cylinder.

  5. Constant altitude plan position indicator - Wikipedia

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    In 1954, [2] McGill University obtained a new radar (CPS-9) which had a better resolution and used FASE (Fast Azimuth Slow Elevation) to program multi-angle soundings of the atmosphere. In 1957, Langleben and Gaherty developed a scheme with FASE to keep only the data at a certain height at each angle and scan on 360 degrees.

  6. Radar signal characteristics - Wikipedia

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    The diagram on the left shows the effect on the spectrum if a trapezoid pulse profile is adopted. It can be seen that the energy in the sidebands is significantly reduced compared to the main lobe and the amplitude of the main lobe is increased. Radar transmission frequency spectrum of a cosine pulse profile

  7. AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel - Wikipedia

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    The Sentinel A4 is a complete redesign of the sensor that uses digital processing and solid-state antenna modules based on gallium nitride (GAN) transmitters. The scalable modular architecture is shared with the long-range AN/TPY-4 radar, which has 1000 individually controlled elements and uses GPU computing for signal processing.

  8. Composite reflectivity - Wikipedia

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    Scans at different angles by a weather radar. A weather radar sequentially surveys a series of vertical angles over 360 degrees in azimuth. The reflectivity at each of these angles represents the rate of precipitation along a cone that rises away from the radar. Every angle can be seen on a PPI image. However, this rate varies with altitude and ...

  9. AN/TPS-43 - Wikipedia

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    The AN/TPS-43 is a ground-based, non-fixed (i.e.: transportable) search radar. [ n 1 ] [ 1 ] The entire system can be broken down and packed into two M35 trucks for road transport. An updated version replacing the original shaped reflector and organ-pipe scanner with a phased array antenna was originally known as the TPS-43E2, but emerged as a ...