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  2. Marine radar - Wikipedia

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    Marine radars are X band or S band radars on ships, used to detect other ships and land obstacles, to provide bearing and distance for collision avoidance and navigation at sea. They are electronic navigation instruments that use a rotating antenna to sweep a narrow beam of microwaves around the water surface surrounding the ship to the horizon ...

  3. Radar navigation - Wikipedia

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    Radar ranges and bearings can be very useful for navigation. Radar navigation is the utilization of marine and aviation radar systems for vessel and aircraft navigation.When a craft is within radar range of land or special radar aids to navigation, the navigator can take distances and angular bearings to charted objects and use these to establish arcs of position and lines of position on a ...

  4. Automatic identification system - Wikipedia

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    The automatic identification system (AIS) is an automatic tracking system that uses transceivers on ships and is used by vessel traffic services (VTS). When satellites are used to receive AIS signatures, the term Satellite-AIS (S-AIS) is used. AIS information supplements marine radar, which continues to be the primary method of collision ...

  5. Category:Sea radars - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Help ... Marine radar; S. Sea-based X-band Radar; SMART-L; SMART-S Mk2; T. Type 342 Radar ...

  6. Automatic radar plotting aid - Wikipedia

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    A typical shipboard ARPA/radar system. A marine radar with automatic radar plotting aid (ARPA) capability can create tracks using radar contacts. [1] The system can calculate the tracked object's course, speed and closest point of approach [2] (CPA), thereby knowing if there is a danger of collision with the other ship or landmass.

  7. Radar signal characteristics - Wikipedia

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    The pulse width ( ) (or pulse duration) of the transmitted signal is the time, typically in microseconds, each pulse lasts. If the pulse is not a perfect square wave, the time is typically measured between the 50% power levels of the rising and falling edges of the pulse. The pulse width must be long enough to ensure that the radar emits ...

  8. AN/APY-10 - Wikipedia

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    The AN/APY-10 is an American multifunction radar developed for the U.S. Navy's Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft. [1] AN/APY-10 is the latest descendant of a radar family originally developed by Texas Instruments, and now Raytheon after it acquired the radar business of TI, for Lockheed P-3 Orion, the predecessor of P-8.

  9. Radar - Wikipedia

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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 relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method [1] used to detect and track aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, map weather formations, and terrain.