News tagged with radar detection

Taiwan in stealth technology breakthrough: report

Taiwan has developed a radar-absorbent material in a breakthrough in the island's development of stealth technology, local media reported Monday.

Technology / Other

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Weapons detection system could make airports, public buildings safer

Weapons detection technology being developed by McMaster researchers can't come soon enough for busy travelers.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

A recent AFOSR-funded technology should enable the Air Force to achieve advances in object and target detection technology by using sophisticated algebraic theories called groups, rings and fields.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Beating the radar: Getting a jump on storm prediction

Satellite observation of cloud temperatures may be able to accurately predict severe thunderstorms up to 45 minutes earlier than relying on traditional radar alone, say researchers at UW-Madison's Space Science ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Gearing up for data deluge from world's biggest radio telescope

The amount of computer data generated by the entire world in a whole year will need to be stored in a single day for the world's most powerful telescope − the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) − and ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR

For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NASA's GCPEX mission: What we don't know about snow

Predicting the future is always a tricky business -- just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there's a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowhere, or ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Precision space maneuvers

Spacecraft must operate with utmost precision when conducting landing maneuvers on other planets, or docking to a space station. To ensure they do not drift off course, imaging sensors collect a fl ood of ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth

An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 21

JPL radar treks to great white north to study snow

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory, including a unique airborne radar built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., above Canadian snowstorms to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA cold weather airborne campaign to measure falling snow

Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Automakers embrace high-tech in safety drive

Automakers displaying the latest technology at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) are relying on sensors, digital cameras and connectivity in a drive towards a common goal -- eliminating accidents.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

NASA radar to study Hawaii's most active volcano

(PhysOrg.com) -- An airborne radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has returned to Hawaii to continue its study of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii's current most active volcano.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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