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  2. Doppler effect - Wikipedia

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    The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the wave. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Doppler effect is named after the physicist Christian Doppler , who described the phenomenon in 1842.

  3. Relativistic Doppler effect - Wikipedia

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    The Doppler effect (with arbitrary direction) also modifies the perceived source intensity: this can be expressed concisely by the fact that source strength divided by the cube of the frequency is a Lorentz invariant [p 6] [note 2] This implies that the total radiant intensity (summing over all frequencies) is multiplied by the fourth power of ...

  4. Coherence time (communications systems) - Wikipedia

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    That is, where () is the maximum Doppler spread or, maximum Doppler frequency or, maximum Doppler shift given by = with being the center frequency of the emitter. Coherence time is actually a statistical measure of the time duration over which the channel impulse response is essentially invariant, and quantifies the similarity of the channel ...

  5. Doppler radar - Wikipedia

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    Doppler Effect: Change of wavelength and frequency caused by motion of the source. The formula for radar Doppler shift is the same as that for reflection of light by a moving mirror. [3] There is no need to invoke Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, because all observations are made in the same frame of reference. [4]

  6. Doppler radio direction finding - Wikipedia

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    Feeding that into the formula above, the frequency shift is: S = ⁠ 50 × 0.0222... × 101.8 / 48 ⁠ = 2.4 Hz. This amount of frequency shift is too small to be accurately measured. To improve detection odds, r × W must be increased. For this reason, Doppler DF systems normally mount their antennas on a small disk that is spun at a high ...

  7. Continuous-wave radar - Wikipedia

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    Frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar (FM-CW) – also called continuous-wave frequency-modulated (CWFM) radar [6] – is a short-range measuring radar set capable of determining distance. This increases reliability by providing distance measurement along with speed measurement, which is essential when there is more than one source of ...

  8. Doppler broadening - Wikipedia

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    A particular case is the thermal Doppler broadening due to the thermal motion of the particles. Then, the broadening depends only on the frequency of the spectral line, the mass of the emitting particles, and their temperature , and therefore can be used for inferring the temperature of an emitting (or absorbing) body being spectroscopically ...

  9. Ambiguity function - Wikipedia

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    In pulsed radar and sonar signal processing, an ambiguity function is a two-dimensional function of propagation delay and Doppler frequency, (,).It represents the distortion of a returned pulse due to the receiver matched filter [1] (commonly, but not exclusively, used in pulse compression radar) of the return from a moving target.