Radar
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204 examples of Radar in a sentence
This is a
radar
speed detector that was developed from a Hot Wheels toy.
That means that I use
radar
to study glaciers and ice sheets.
So today, I want to talk to you about why it's so hard to put good numbers on sea level rise, and why I believe that by changing the way we think about
radar
technology and earth-science education, we can get much better at it.
I said in the beginning that I was a radio glaciologist, and the reason that that's a thing is that airborne ice-penetrating
radar
is the main tool we have to see inside of ice sheets.
These are used to transmit
radar
signals down into the ice.
While this is happening, scientists and engineers are on the airplane for eight hours at a stretch, making sure that the
radar'
s working.
And there are sophisticated, interesting, electromagnetic reasons for that, but let's say for now that ice is basically the perfect target for radar, and
radar
is basically the perfect tool to study ice sheets.
Now, we're working on that, because it turns out that the very first
radar
observations of Antarctica were collected using 35 millimeter optical film.
There are these recent ground-based
radar
systems that stay in one spot.
We can choose between good spatial coverage with airborne
radar
sounding and good temporal coverage in one spot with ground-based sounding.
Well, for existing
radar
systems, the biggest driver of cost is the power required to transmit the
radar
signal itself.
So, actually, one of the most exciting things my group is doing right now is trying to use the radio emissions from the sun as a type of
radar
signal.
And defense radars use TV signals and radio signals all the time, so they don't have to transmit a signal of
radar
and give away their position.
Those earlier
radar
systems I talked about were developed by experienced engineers over the course of years at national facilities with expensive specialized equipment.
But the recent developments in software-defined radio, rapid fabrication and the maker movement, make it so that it's possible for a team of teenagers working in my lab over the course of a handful of months to build a prototype
radar.
And by teaching engineering students to think like earth scientists and earth-science students who can think like engineers, my lab is building an environment in which we can build custom
radar
sensors for each problem at hand, that are optimized for low cost and high performance for that problem.
And if you're a radar, that's a really bad job.
He said, "But that's if you're a
radar.
So we didn't use a radar; we built a black box that was looking for electrical signals, electronic communication.
In the Second World War, too, the existence of solar radiation was demonstrated by studies of interference that was detected by the
radar
stations of Great Britain.
Now if you think about it, in the age before GPS and radar, that was obviously a really difficult problem.
It completely passes below the
radar
screen.
And maybe the hardest part about my life ending is that I learned something hard about myself, and that was that, as much as I would be frustrated about not being able to get my work out to the world, there was a part of me that was working very hard to engineer staying small, staying right under the
radar.
Let me get you our weather satellite
radar.
All of a sudden your GPS readout goes blank, and now it's just you and the fog and whatever you can pull off the
radar
system if you remember how to work it.
I get a call from Caitria, hear the news, and start tracking the
radar
online to call the family back when another supercell was forming in their area.
Approaching a peak
radar
altitude of 96,863 feet, at 4:12 p.m., Helios is standing on top of 98 percent of the Earth's atmosphere.
They have invented narco-submarines and boats that are not detected by
radar.
It's intelligent and has cameras, lidar and radar, so it can detect and avoid unexpected obstacles.
Now you might be wondering, how is it possible that we can sense people and track them, without any wearables, through walls, and the easiest analogy to think about is
radar.
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