Radar engineering details
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Radar engineering details are technical details pertaining to the components of a radar and their ability to detect the return energy from moving scatterers — determining an object's position or obstruction in the environment.wikipedia

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Radar
radar stationradarsradar system
Radar engineering details are technical details pertaining to the components of a radar and their ability to detect the return energy from moving scatterers — determining an object's position or obstruction in the environment.









Scattering
light scatteringscatteredscatter
Radar engineering details are technical details pertaining to the components of a radar and their ability to detect the return energy from moving scatterers — determining an object's position or obstruction in the environment.


Solid angle
angular areaSquare minuteSquare second
This includes field of view in terms of solid angle and maximum unambiguous range and velocity, as well as angular, range and velocity resolution.
Adaptive cruise control
Autonomous cruise control systemDynamic Radar Cruise ControlDISTRONIC PLUS
Applications of radar include adaptive cruise control, autonomous landing guidance, radar altimeter, air traffic management, early-warning radar, fire-control radar, forward warning collision sensing, ground penetrating radar, surveillance, and weather forecasting.






Radar altimeter
radio altimeterradar altimetryelectronic altimeter
Applications of radar include adaptive cruise control, autonomous landing guidance, radar altimeter, air traffic management, early-warning radar, fire-control radar, forward warning collision sensing, ground penetrating radar, surveillance, and weather forecasting.
Air traffic management
ATM
Applications of radar include adaptive cruise control, autonomous landing guidance, radar altimeter, air traffic management, early-warning radar, fire-control radar, forward warning collision sensing, ground penetrating radar, surveillance, and weather forecasting.

Early-warning radar
early warning radarearly warningearly-warning
Applications of radar include adaptive cruise control, autonomous landing guidance, radar altimeter, air traffic management, early-warning radar, fire-control radar, forward warning collision sensing, ground penetrating radar, surveillance, and weather forecasting.


Fire-control radar
fire control radargunnery radarradar
Applications of radar include adaptive cruise control, autonomous landing guidance, radar altimeter, air traffic management, early-warning radar, fire-control radar, forward warning collision sensing, ground penetrating radar, surveillance, and weather forecasting.

Collision avoidance system
Pre-Collision SystemPrecrash systemPre-Safe
Applications of radar include adaptive cruise control, autonomous landing guidance, radar altimeter, air traffic management, early-warning radar, fire-control radar, forward warning collision sensing, ground penetrating radar, surveillance, and weather forecasting.




Ground-penetrating radar
ground penetrating radargeoradarGPR
Applications of radar include adaptive cruise control, autonomous landing guidance, radar altimeter, air traffic management, early-warning radar, fire-control radar, forward warning collision sensing, ground penetrating radar, surveillance, and weather forecasting.





Surveillance
electronic surveillancestakeoutmonitoring
Applications of radar include adaptive cruise control, autonomous landing guidance, radar altimeter, air traffic management, early-warning radar, fire-control radar, forward warning collision sensing, ground penetrating radar, surveillance, and weather forecasting.









Weather forecasting
weather forecastweather forecastsweatherman
Applications of radar include adaptive cruise control, autonomous landing guidance, radar altimeter, air traffic management, early-warning radar, fire-control radar, forward warning collision sensing, ground penetrating radar, surveillance, and weather forecasting.









Phased array
phased array radarphased-arrayphased-array radar
This is done electronically, with a phased array antenna, or mechanically by rotating a physical antenna.









Monostatic radar
monostatic (single antenna) CW radarsmonostatic operation
The emitter and the receiver can be in the same place, as with the monostatic radars, or be separated as in the
Bistatic radar
bistaticbi-staticbi-static system
bistatic radars.



Bandwidth (signal processing)
bandwidthbandwidthssignal bandwidth
Power dividers and directional couplers
directional couplercombinerdirectional couplers







Active electronically scanned array
AESAAESA radaractive phased array









Passive electronically scanned array
PESAelectronically scannedelectronically steered


Antenna aperture
apertureaperture efficiencyeffective area
Synthetic-aperture radar
synthetic aperture radarSARsynthetic aperture









Group delay and phase delay
group delayphase delaydelay distortion
Beamforming
beam formingbeamformerAntenna beamforming
Antenna (radio)
antennaantennasradio antenna
This is done electronically, with a phased array antenna, or mechanically by rotating a physical antenna.








