In winter, avalanches pose the biggest danger in the mountains. Avalanche monitoring is therefore of critical importance to ...

Until recently phased array radar has been very expensive, used only for military applications where the cost of survival weighs in the balance. With the advent of low-cost microwave devices and ...

the radar image will not show echos from precipitation that lies outside the radar's beam, either because the precipitation is too high above the radar, or because it is so close to the Earth's ...

Climavision's X-band radar installed in Pine Hill, Alabama Pine Hill, Alabama SW Alabama one of many rural, high-povert ...

DON'T MISS: The technology that can spot hidden tornadoes lurking in storms Modern weather radar works by sending a beam of microwave energy out into the atmosphere. These beams are angled ...

However, smaller wavelengths have the advantage of being able to be projected in sharper beams by smaller antennas and generally have higher precision (Bruderer 1997). Radar has several benefits ...

For this purpose, both TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X use an active antenna consisting of an array of transmit-and-receive modules designed for rapid changes in the direction of the radar beam as well as ...